Whenever I would get discouraged, I'd see the faces of the people who were going to have no voice in government if I weren't elected. A lot of them were female. A lot of them were people of color. And a lot of them were white, and they were poor. And they didn't matter. They just were obscure.
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Gideon Welles
It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.
Keri Russell
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus