Liz Carpenter Quotes

• What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

  Liz Carpenter

  Love, Women, Memorable

  Liz Carpenter (1993). “Getting Better All the Time”, Texas A & M University Press

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• What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

  Liz Carpenter

  Real, Learning, Curiosity

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• If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

  Liz Carpenter

  Memorable, World, Victim

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• Charge hell with a bucket of water.

  Liz Carpenter

  Water, Buckets, Hell

  Liz Carpenter (1993). “Ruffles & flourishes”, Texas A & M Univ Pr

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• Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

  Liz Carpenter

  Life, Encouraging, Choices

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• Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

  Liz Carpenter

  Office, Eras, Should

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• A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

  Liz Carpenter

  Birthday, People, Judging

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• Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

  Liz Carpenter

  Laughter, Giving, Solace

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• I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

  Liz Carpenter

  Vacuums, I Am Woman, Cleaners

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• I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

  Liz Carpenter

  Work, Needed, Wanted

  Liz Carpenter (1993). “Getting Better All the Time”, Texas A & M University Press

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• I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

  Liz Carpenter

  Differences, Making A Difference, That One Person

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• How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

  Liz Carpenter

  Inspirational, Jobs, Giving

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