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An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.


Marian Seldes

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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in yo...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonv...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and pres...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kin...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than ...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a b...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfini...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even th...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily diffe...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fe...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forge...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peopl...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gon...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are go...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. Wha...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You ...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who wer...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You just think of them playing baseball and basketball, anything fun, not waiting for someone to com...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w...
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