"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West."

-- Ida B. Wells

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“Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.”
“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
“I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.”

Source : "Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Dies at 73". www.foxnews.com. September 14, 2006.
“I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.”
“life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre”
“I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it fall into the same patterns. Like, "and then the woman brings in the food, because the woman's the one who makes food." It's easy for that to happen, because that's what we've always known.”
“Love is the most durable power in the world.”
“I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.”

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