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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Monterey
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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
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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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the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.
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Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
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Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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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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On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?
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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.
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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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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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Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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