I’m not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I’m saying that if you opt for children – be you man or woman – you have to take care of them.
BARBARA BUSHRaising George Walker was not easy.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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Suddenly women’s lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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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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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSH