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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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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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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
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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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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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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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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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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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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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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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