Former Texas Governor Ann Richards was 73 when she died this week. Women everywhere should remember Ann Richards as a woman who advanced the cause of equality for women.
Broadsheet has Ten reasons we already miss Ann Richards.
Among her many contributions to the feminist cause:
"In her later years, Richards established the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, which will open in 2007. Her family requests that memorial gifts be made to the school, through the Austin Community Foundation."
"Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." -- Ann Richards
"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels." --Ann Richards
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