Liz Carpenter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Love #Writing #Phones
If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Memorable #World #Victim
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Birthday #Judging #People
I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Differences #Making A Difference #That One Person
I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Work #Needed #Wanted
Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Office #Eras #Should
What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Real #Learning #Curiosity
Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Laughter #Giving #Solace
Charge hell with a bucket of water.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Water #Buckets #Hell
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Life #Choices #Want
How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.
-- Liz Carpenter

#Inspirational #Jobs #Giving

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