Liz Carpenter quotes:

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

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

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

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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