Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Ivy Baker Priest

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Ivy Baker Priest was an American politician who served as Treasurer of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and California State Treasurer from 1967 to 1975.

September 7, 1905 - June 23, 1975

Source: Wikipedia

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Ivy Baker Priest

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

Ivy Baker Priest

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

Ivy Baker Priest

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Ivy Baker Priest

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

Ivy Baker Priest

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

Ivy Baker Priest

No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

Ivy Baker Priest

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

Ivy Baker Priest

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Ivy Baker Priest

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