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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

Molly Ivins

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
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Monterey
California
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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.
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I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing Go?
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
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Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.
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no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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I know: Guns Don't Kill People. But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, Bang, bang, you're dead, not much actually happens.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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