Quotes from Liz Carpenter

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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