Wendy Davis quote: "The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done."

I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, an...
WENDY DAVIS

I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
WENDY DAVIS

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo...
WENDY DAVIS

Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with ...
WENDY DAVIS

While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few faci...
WENDY DAVIS

I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or fo...
WENDY DAVIS

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
WENDY DAVIS

We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you...
WENDY DAVIS

I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
WENDY DAVIS

Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's e...
WENDY DAVIS

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get t...
WENDY DAVIS

As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GO...
WENDY DAVIS

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from...
WENDY DAVIS

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels...
WENDY DAVIS

I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say...
WENDY DAVIS

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi...
WENDY DAVIS

I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, eve...
WENDY DAVIS

I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard w...
WENDY DAVIS

I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate ...
WENDY DAVIS

Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
WENDY DAVIS

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change...
WENDY DAVIS

Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care o...
WENDY DAVIS

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to ...
WENDY DAVIS

Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS

Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power...
WENDY DAVIS

It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect...
WENDY DAVIS

Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas a...
WENDY DAVIS

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texan...
WENDY DAVIS

Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed d...
WENDY DAVIS

Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers an...
WENDY DAVIS

Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country -...
WENDY DAVIS

I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still...
WENDY DAVIS

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
WENDY CARLOS

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
WENDY LIEBMAN

One rose says more than the dozen.
WENDY CRAIG

When 'Twin Peaks' happened the first time, I was a stage actor in Seattle. I was called in f...
WENDY ROBIE

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw...
WENDY LIEBMAN

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phylli...
WENDY LIEBMAN

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
WENDY LIEBMAN

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were s...
WENDY LIEBMAN

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
WENDY LIEBMAN

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience see...
WENDY LIEBMAN

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
WENDY LIEBMAN

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, t...
WENDY KOPP

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers impro...
WENDY KOPP

More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high ne...
WENDY KOPP

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designe...
WENDY KOPP

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest a...
WENDY KOPP

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than...
WENDY KOPP

The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters...
WENDY KOPP

Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers...
WENDY KOPP

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence ...
WENDY KOPP

Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education...
WENDY KOPP

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration statu...
WENDY KOPP

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary sc...
WENDY KOPP

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
WENDY KOPP

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some o...
WENDY KOPP

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that the...
WENDY KOPP

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconc...
WENDY KOPP

We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools ne...
WENDY KOPP

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of...
WENDY KOPP

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
WENDY KOPP

When you're young, you're stupid.
WENDY HILLER

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
WENDY HILLER

I was unbelievably lucky.
WENDY HILLER

I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, a...
WENDY HIGGINS

I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes,...
WENDY HIGGINS

I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the s...
WENDY HIGGINS

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That'...
WENDY CRAIG

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not goi...
WENDY COPE

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour...
WENDY COPE

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop...
WENDY COPE

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot...
WENDY COPE

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're g...
WENDY COPE

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
WENDY COPE

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
WENDY COPE

I like a quiet life.
WENDY COPE

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ...
WENDY COPE

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset ...
WENDY COPE

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, ...
WENDY COPE

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make t...
WENDY COPE

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to...
WENDY COPE

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca...
WENDY CARLOS

Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS

I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.
WENDY WHELAN

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.
WENDY MASS

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
WENDY MASS

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision tha...
WENDY KOPP

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
WENDY WASSERSTEIN

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.
WENDY MASS

You need to be flagrantly insouciant.
You care way too much.
And because of that you will...
WENDY WUNDER

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
WENDY COPE

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your sto...
WENDY COPE

One rose says more than the dozen
WENDY CRAIG

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get fr...
WENDY WASSERSTEIN

You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the bui...
WENDY KOPP

Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and i...
WENDY KOPP

I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a ...
WENDY KOPP

We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages ri...
WENDY KOPP

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have ...
WENDY KOPP

On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic n...
WENDY KOPP

Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yours...
WENDY WHELAN

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
WENDY COPE

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't ha...
WENDY KOPP

Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort....
WENDY KOPP

when you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little imperfection can become a...
WENDY BRANT

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been...
WENDY KOPP

Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend...
WENDY KOPP

Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in ...
WENDY WHELAN

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from coll...
WENDY KOPP

I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
WENDY HIGGINS

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering th...
WENDY KOPP

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had ...
WENDY WHELAN

This is our home tonight. Anywhere with you is my home.
WENDY HIGGINS

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education ...
WENDY KOPP

Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to ...
WENDY KOPP

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
WENDY KOPP

In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not ...
WENDY KOPP

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
WENDY MAGRUDER

I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away ...
WENDY ROSE

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
WENDY LIEBMAN

To meet this deadline, my marching orders are to seek to conclude this comprehensive agreement by th...
WENDY CUTLER

These issues have basically been untouched in this area before. Why is this area the exception? We n...
WENDY VASQUEZ

They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to ...
WENDY LONG

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big ...
WENDY WASSERSTEIN

We're not at the stage yet where investors are panic-stricken by any stretch of the imagination. Con...
WENDY STRUB

Career counselors on campus don't necessarily give graduates the tools they need to build rewarding ...
WENDY ADAMS

It would be a misrepresentation of facts to report that KBR is responsible for the implementation of...
WENDY HALL

I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question...
WENDY KAMINER

When we'd look at our budget for the last couple years, we were unable to pay our operating services...
WENDY KRAJEWSKI

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperi...
WENDY KOPP

I'm numb from the toes of my left foot to about the top of my rib cage, and then I do get some visio...
WENDY BOOKER

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money
WENDY LIEBMAN

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent gr...
WENDY KOPP

Most of the kids weren't afraid and knew all about proper oral hygiene. The staff also did a great j...
WENDY LOMBARDI

The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and...
WENDY LONG

You have to be more aggressive, for sure. I also think a three-day tournament kind of lends itself t...
WENDY WARD

The Tommy brand has lost a bit of its luster.
WENDY LIEBMANN

The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, t...
WENDY LONG

It would be like a shooting outside Macy's. It was so public, most of the victims were bystanders an...
WENDY CUKIER

Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in c...
WENDY KOPP

Money is available to but people are not applying. We urge people who are eligible to apply now and ...
WENDY PARKS

I fell in love with her; she was just adorable,
WENDY WHITE

In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young ad...
WENDY KRAMER

There's no question that the charge would be first-degree premeditated murder. The grand jury could ...
WENDY MURPHY

People want a celebrity designer they trust and an esthetic to tell them what color and couch goes w...
WENDY LIEBMANN

Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling peopl...
WENDY BENCHLEY

[Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Pos...
WENDY SMITH

People only sign up if they're willing to be found. We don't want to invade anyone's privacy. We wan...
WENDY KRAMER

Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, t...
WENDY KOPP

We seemed to be in a hurry in the first half, especially in trying to get the ball inside to Dominiq...
WENDY PRICE

It's certainly part of our cultural heritage, ... We've been predicting for a while that by 2015, 60...
WENDY EVANS

We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. And certainly, sp...
WENDY LAWRENCE

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on wom...
WENDY WRIGHT

We're disturbed by ... lack of concern on the medical safety,
WENDY WRIGHT

Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry,
WENDY WRIGHT

When a drug is easily available, it is a public health hazard to women.
WENDY WRIGHT

In any scenario in which a woman would be taking the morning-after pill she needs medical interventi...
WENDY WRIGHT

Making the morning-after pill over the counter would only benefit those that profit from its increas...
WENDY WRIGHT

It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. Mak...
WENDY WRIGHT

It is naive to assume any over-the-counter scheme for the morning-after pill would be effective. A 1...
WENDY WRIGHT

We can't deprive the paying members of their golf, even for an ex-president.
WENDY ALLEY

What is my strength? Do I even have a strength? Maybe I have too many strengths...
WENDY MASS

Steve will never put her in front of a camera. He's adamant that she not appear on camera anywhere.
WENDY PRICE

In general we have to be very attentive to the fact that hunting rifles and shotguns in the wrong ha...
WENDY CUKIER

If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more cl...
WENDY WRIGHT

For those employees who want to remain with Radio Shack, (the company) will do its best to transfer ...
WENDY DOMINGUEZ

They're just complementary in our minds. We want to be in all the places where our customers are. We...
WENDY CLARK

She raised the kids and took care of things while Dewey was gone. She had to be a wonderful woman to...
WENDY MILLER

I'll nurse my lemons along as long as I possibly can. As a last resort, I get out the juice squeezer...
WENDY CARROLL

I thought we were really back on our heels from the jump and didn't really compete with a very, very...
WENDY LARRY

I think we will eventually follow in England's footsteps. Donor insemination is moving in the same d...
WENDY KRAMER

It just evolved and I've been running after it ever since because it got bigger than me.
WENDY KRAMER

I felt it was my job as his mother, ... I brought him into the world with this set of circumstances ...
WENDY KRAMER

The assembly is a great way to bring the school together. Students and teachers need a break after i...
WENDY PARKHOUSE

It's been such a great run so far. And we don't want to screw it up.
WENDY MEAD

It's obviously going to hurt Firestone financially. They're giving up business that will be tough to...
WENDY NEEDHAM

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fi...
WENDY KOPP

We already had a single serve size in our 187 ml glass bottles and believed that adding PET would on...
WENDY NYBERG

The student where the weapon originated has been suspended. I don't know about the other student who...
WENDY LAPHAM

We usually have minimal slides, but everybody has had a lot of rain this year.
WENDY SQUIRES

It has been an underpinning of U.S. policy and a premise of the Perry report that a South-North dial...
WENDY SHERMAN

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to pla...
WENDY WARD

We kind of knew (Savannah) would be the first. I was the only one up there ready to deliver.
WENDY LAVALLO

We haven't had kids screaming and yelling in the middle of the night. We haven't seen any more graff...
WENDY WALKER

The opportunity to lock up that No. 1 seed is coveted by so many teams in the conference. For us to ...
WENDY LARRY

We had some nice shots in the first half, but definitely in the second half we needed to take more s...
WENDY NOLAN

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all fou...
WENDY KOPP

I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in e...
WENDY DELSOL

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understan...
WENDY SHALIT

The concentration camps were a laboratory for the Nazis. They put the minorities and intellectuals i...
WENDY HOFFMAN

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.
WENDY SHALIT

Oh, dear Lord. I was in love with him. And there wasn’t a thing on earth, in heaven, or in hell th...
WENDY HIGGINS

There was nothing healthy about desperately wanting something you couldn't have.
WENDY HIGGINS

Wait,” Kaidan called from behind me. I squeezed my eyes shut for a second, but kept walking. Then ...
WENDY HIGGINS

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