98 Quotes by Ann Richards

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

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.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.