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• A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
  • This is also often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. If this is correct, the attribution to Mrs. Reagan may have been derived from a quoting of Mrs. Roosevelt.
  • Variant: A woman is like a tea bag, you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

• I believe that people would be alive today if it were not for the death penalty.

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should. ... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

• I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

• I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

• I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

• I was sleeping with the President, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

• Just say no to drugs!

• My life really began when I married my husband.

• Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

• The movies were custard compared to politics.

• The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.