Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
BARBARA BUSHSuddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I’m tired now of the elections.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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I’m worried about parents who aren’t parenting.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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