"I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness."

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Source : "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.

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“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”
“He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.”
“The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.”

Source : Quoted in WChadwick Women, Art and Society (1990).
“Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events”
“I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.
“My most annoying question is 'Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?'”
“I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.”
“The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.”

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