"If politics meanâ€¦the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other peopleâ€™s childrenâ€¦then it most assuredly is a womanâ€™s job as much as it is a manâ€™s job."

-- Irene Parlby

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“One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.”
“If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.”
“My biggest strength is that no one can read my forehand”
“Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in those days, nor as straight either. But Bill was cool, and the men who he went up against were rattled, I guess. Bill beat them to it. He made up his mind to kill the other man before the other man had finished thinking.”
“It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.”
“I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.”
“We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

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