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Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
BETTY WILLIAMS

There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.
BETTY WILLIAMS

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.
BETTY WILLIAMS

That could've been disastrous. Normally they would be in that classroom, except today.
BETTY WILLIAMS

God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless...
BETTY WILLIAMS

We have 2,290 more people in the work force this March than we did a year ago.
BETTY WILLIAMS

I feel a women's role has got to be a gentle role and perhaps if we can do it correctly, the men wou...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equate...
BETTY WILLIAMS

It's gonna be a great thing. They do wonderful work helping people. We'll have a lot of celebrating ...
BETTY WILLIAMS

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
BETTY WILLIAMS

I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'
BETTY WILLIAMS

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.
BETTY WILLIAMS

It's there for anybody that needs it. We like to help them out.
BETTY WILLIAMS

I have had two broken hips. I used most of my savings to buy my mobile home seven years ago. I don't...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Patriotism kills.
BETTY WILLIAMS

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can...
BETTY WILLIAMS

We should stop worshipping flags and respect the people, remember the people and forget the flags.
BETTY WILLIAMS

But without painful experiences we don't grow.
BETTY WILLIAMS

I swear to God, it's an incredible force for good if you can remember that nonviolence is the weapon...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent.
BETTY WILLIAMS

Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do n...
BETTY WILLIAMS

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it w...
BETTY WILLIAMS

When all else fails, take a vacation.
BETTY WILLIAMS

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That&...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, ...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been sever...
BETTY WILLIAMS

John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
BETTY WILLIAMS

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of vio...
BETTY WILLIAMS

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I ...
BETTY WILLIAMS

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent wo...
BETTY WILLIAMS

There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're fa...
BETTY WILLIAMS

I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see...
BETTY WILLIAMS

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent worl...
BETTY WILLIAMS

The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not alw...
BETTY WILLIAMS

We want to live, love and build a just and peaceful society. We dedicate ourselves to working with o...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.
BETTY WILLIAMS

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in ...
BETTY WILLIAMS

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.
BETTY HILL

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ...
BETTY FRIEDAN

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most ...
BETTY GILPIN

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can ...
BETTY FORD

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clo...
BETTY SMITH

I have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.
BETTY GILPIN

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagi...
BETTY SMITH

Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vag...
BETTY WHITE

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'di...
BETTY SMITH

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, wi...
BETTY GRABLE

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equip...
BETTY ROLLIN

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominanc...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al...
BETTY FRIEDAN

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...
BETTY SMITH

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
BETTY BENDER

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange sti...
BETTY FRIEDAN

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was s...
BETTY FRIEDAN

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mys...
BETTY FRIEDAN

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan yo...
BETTY FRIEDAN

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
BETTY WHITE

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN

The world was hers for the reading.
BETTY SMITH

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
BETTY FRIEDAN

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and mus...
BETTY BUCKLEY

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of...
BETTY FRIEDAN

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
BETTY HILL

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.
BETTY HILL

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
BETTY FRIEDAN

I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it mad...
BETTY FORD

I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was ta...
BETTY SHABAZZ

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I'...
BETTY FIELD

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
BETTY WHITE

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. W...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mys...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselv...
BETTY FRIEDAN

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do...
BETTY FORD

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
BETTY WHITE

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
BETTY WHITE

I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
BETTY WHITE

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, bu...
BETTY WHITE

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without ...
BETTY WHITE

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds lik...
BETTY WHITE

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
BETTY WHITE

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
BETTY WHITE

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've...
BETTY WHITE

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.
BETTY WHITE

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I...
BETTY WHITE

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing o...
BETTY WHITE

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who...
BETTY WHITE

Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives...
BETTY WHITE

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That...
BETTY WHITE

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them bet...
BETTY WHITE

I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people ...
BETTY WHITE

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
BETTY WHITE

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side,...
BETTY WHITE

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself ...
BETTY WHITE

I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they...
BETTY GILPIN

I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan ...
BETTY WHITE

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a p...
BETTY WHITE

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're bl...
BETTY WHITE

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
BETTY SMITH

Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on ...
BETTY SMITH

You should have heard him 10 minutes ago.
BETTY SMITH

(Donations) slow down during the summer. I've only been here since the first of the year, but it has...
BETTY SMITH

We've used a lot of stuff since the Can-Care-A-Van. We go through pork and beans and green beans and...
BETTY SMITH

Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. L...
BETTY SMITH

There are four stages of wellness, ... The first is when you are sick, the second, when you are not ...
BETTY SIEGEL

Atlanta's fast growing business market and diverse population provide the ideal location for this ve...
BETTY SIEGEL

Global Learning for Engaged Citizenship.
BETTY SIEGEL

There's a whole energy . . . that extends out into the evening,
BETTY SIEGEL

A lot of these are drug related, but until we get to the root of the problem, in fact, we don't know...
BETTY SCHWAB

There's been approximately 11 or 12 within the last month in the German Village area.
BETTY SCHWAB

He became violent and hit the teller with a closed fist and bound the teller as well.
BETTY SCHWAB

He had a gun, came around the corner and demanded the teller give him the cash, and as for the safe,...
BETTY SCHWAB

Anyone that hits anything, you would know that you've hit something. You need to stop and at least c...
BETTY SCHWAB

We are working very hard at collecting any kind of evidence and looking at places that we probably n...
BETTY SCHWAB

I couldn't figure out if she was a robot or a real person! It's fascinating.
BETTY ROGERS

Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.
BETTY ROGERS

There was a dead-end street when I got married. It was quiet, peaceful and there were no factories.
BETTY ROGERS

I think it's great. It's just such a riot.
BETTY ROGERS

Over a 20-year period, we have seen the stock market go up and down, and when it's up, we've seen it...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

What keeps the club together is that we are set on a format already proven to be a logical way to ru...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

All members look to see what stocks we could be interested in adding. The financial partner contacts...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

We do special things to celebrate the club. We go places to eat, and we celebrated our 10th annivers...
BETTY NOSTDAHL

The doctor said that he may come out with a Big Mac in his mouth.
BETTY MONTGOMERY

[Law-enforcement officials are among the biggest supporters of the legislation.] For generations, mo...
BETTY MONTGOMERY

This is a 50-50 state, ... We are a crossroads state and very diverse. We've never really elected an...
BETTY MONTGOMERY

As with any crime, we can't completely control whether we become a victim,
BETTY MONTGOMERY

Everybody's over here to make money for themselves.
BETTY HILL

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, st...
BETTY HILL

And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.
BETTY HILL

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
BETTY HILL

And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, ...
BETTY HILL

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one...
BETTY HILL

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.
BETTY HILL

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
BETTY HILL

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
BETTY HILL

This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville. I'm thankful for the c...
BETTY HARRISON

This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville, ... I'm thankful for t...
BETTY HARRISON

Because the world has gone this way, we would be foolish not to give our kids access to these machin...
BETTY HARRISON

I have no evidence anyone is doing any more substantial research because they're on the Internet tha...
BETTY HARRISON

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tigh...
BETTY GRABLE

With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
BETTY GRABLE

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.
BETTY GRABLE

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
BETTY GRABLE

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
BETTY GRABLE

The glorification of the ""'woman's role,"" then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance ...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength
BETTY FRIEDAN

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei...
BETTY FRIEDAN

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
BETTY FORD

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle...
BETTY FORD

It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you have...
BETTY FORD

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old....
BETTY FORD

Have a nice trip, Dick.
BETTY FORD

The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the...
BETTY FORD

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to ...
BETTY DODSON

If we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realise that we're al...
BETTY DODSON

I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That's a very limited v...
BETTY DODSON

I like to see oral sex and manual sex and intercourse as foreplay for my vibrator sex.
BETTY DODSON

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting ...
BETTY DODSON

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON

If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we w...
BETTY DODSON

I went through the '70s and '80s saying, I'm a heterosexual bisexual lesbian, and whenever I said th...
BETTY DODSON

If you are using your childhood masturbation technique, you are not developing sexually. We, of cour...
BETTY DODSON

I've spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexu...
BETTY DODSON

The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
BETTY CUTHBERT

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.
BETTY CUTHBERT

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that ...
BETTY CUTHBERT

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.
BETTY CUTHBERT

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to ...
BETTY CUTHBERT

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
BETTY CUTHBERT

I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've a...
BETTY CUTHBERT

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
BETTY CUTHBERT

I've always loved God, His creation, the plants, the trees and the animals. Mum went to church and s...
BETTY CUTHBERT

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.
BETTY CARTER

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is sca...
BETTY CARTER

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a ha...
BETTY CARTER

If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! ...
BETTY CARTER

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way o...
BETTY BUCKLEY

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights...
BETTY BUCKLEY

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
BETTY BUCKLEY

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.
BETTY BUCKLEY

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una...
BETTY BUCKLEY

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was th...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a b...
BETTY BUCKLEY

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and shari...
BETTY BUCKLEY

There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students).
BETTY ANDERSON

I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.
BETTY ANDERSON

One fourth of the money stays here in Zanesville, going to Christ Table and the Salvation Army. The ...
BETTY ANDERSON

They kept telling us they needed office supplies, so we just started doing that instead. Over the years, we stopped doing the repairs at all.

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They kept telling us they needed office supplies, so we just started doing that instead. Over the years, we stopped doing the repairs at all.

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