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Helen Gahagan Douglas: I became active...

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I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas, (Nov 25 1900-1980), US actress, opera singer, politician; She was the U.S. delegate to the U.N., 1946; Democratic congresswoman, CA, 1944-50; lost bid for Senate to Richard Nixon.


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