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If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.


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FRANCES MAYES If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing t...
FRANCES MAYES Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand ...
FRANCES MAYES It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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FRANCES MAYES I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The...
FRANCES MAYES When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every singl...
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FRANCES MAYES The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
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FRANCES MAYES I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anythin...
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FRANCES FARMER I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't sh...
FRANCES FARMER I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
FRANCES FARMER I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After t...
FRANCES FARMER It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had rea...
FRANCES FARMER The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told ...
FRANCES FARMER I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
FRANCES FARMER If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
FRANCES FARMER I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my ha...
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FRANCES FARMER There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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FRANCES CONROY Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
FRANCES CONROY Marriage is an exercise in torture.
FRANCES CONROY I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days...
FRANCES CONROY It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what yo...
FRANCES CONROY As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your ...
FRANCES CONROY If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private ...
FRANCES CONROY It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don&#...
FRANCES CONROY Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
FRANCES BURNEY There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect...
FRANCES BURNEY I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history ...
FRANCES BURNEY We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't a...
FRANCES BURNEY The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
FRANCES BURNEY People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one fea...
FRANCES BURNEY To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I r...
FRANCES BURNEY A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment...
FRANCES BURNEY Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudent...
FRANCES BEINECKE I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw...
FRANCES BEINECKE When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
FRANCES BEINECKE We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food t...
FRANCES BEINECKE Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air sa...
FRANCES BEINECKE The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climat...
FRANCES BEINECKE Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt c...
FRANCES BEINECKE I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian...
FRANCES BEINECKE Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatur...
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