I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
I’ve been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women’s reproductive health needs to be protected.
They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
I’ve always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
A road to a friend’s house is never long.
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I’ve had to deal with in politics.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it’s still a pig.
Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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.
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.