Laura Bush
I was so fortunate. My parents lived lives of service. They helped other people, that was their second nature; it came to them so naturally. It wasn't forced. This is their character, and it's a big advantage I have, being raised by people like this, having a secure and stable life, and a lot of love and encouragement.Collection: Encouragement
Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.Collection: Waiting
Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.Collection: Dresses
The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.Collection: Book
It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.Collection: Uncles
In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.Collection: Issues
I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.Collection: Health Education
certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected...what I'd always been interested in was education.Collection: Women's Health
In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.Collection: Girl
For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.Collection: Country
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.Collection: Library
You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing.Collection: Opportunity
I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.Collection: Running
Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.Collection: Children
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.Collection: Girl
Reading will give you lasting pleasure.Collection: Book
We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.Collection: Inspirational
There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are.Collection: Differences
The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.Collection: Fighting
I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.Collection: Children
A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.Collection: Inspirational
Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.Collection: Keys
Any criticism of someone you love is hard to take.Collection: Love Is
The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause.Collection: Long
There's nothing political about American literature.Collection: Political
There's a very close tie between good health and good education.Collection: Ties
Girls learn how to relate to men from the way their fathers love them. And if their fathers really love them and want the very best for them, then they've seen that kind of good behavior that they'd want in a husband.Collection: Girl
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.Collection: Rights
When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.Collection: Cancer
As long as we have books, we are not alone.Collection: Book
Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.Collection: Heart
It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.Collection: Parent
I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.Collection: Loyalty
We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.Collection: Heart
Books are important. They help you sleep at night.Collection: Book
An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.Collection: Children
There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.Collection: Powerful
I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)Collection: Book
Well, I think we ought to definitely look at it and debate it. I think there are a lot of people who have trouble coming to terms with that because they see marriage as traditionally between a man and a woman. But I also know that, you know, when couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have I think the same sort of rights that everyone has.Collection: Couple
I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.Collection: Country
It's really important, obviously, for people to realize that it is a very small percentage, only 1 percent of our total economy, of our total budget, and I think that's important for people to know. But I also know that Americans are very generous and that many, many Americans are proud that their taxpayer dollar has saved lives in Africa through the president's malaria initiative or through PEPFAR, the emergency relief plan for AIDS.Collection: Thinking
I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?Collection: Degrees
What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.Collection: Country
I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.Collection: Country
I've always liked walking; that's one of my favorite things to do, and I try to walk every day. [In Washington, D.C.] I can't walk outside, but we have the treadmill. And I walked eight miles at the ranch last weekend. Now I also lift weights, which is also great for bone strength. [Mrs. Bush mimes a biceps curl and laughs.] I'm very, very strong, actually.Collection: Strong
My husband and I have always incorporated things into our life that reduce stress. We're very careful with our health. We go to bed early. In this job, fatigue would be very detrimental! We've always eaten very healthily; now it's really particularly easy because we have a chef.Collection: Jobs
We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.Collection: Thinking
If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help.Collection: Country
Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.Collection: Character