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Liz Carpenter Quotes

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

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

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

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

Liz Carpenter
Memorable, World, Victim

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

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

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

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

Liz Carpenter
Office, Eras, Should

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

Liz Carpenter
Birthday, People, Judging

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

Liz Carpenter
Laughter, Giving, Solace

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

Liz Carpenter
Vacuums, I Am Woman, Cleaners

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

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

Liz Carpenter
Differences, Making A Difference, That One Person

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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