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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.
Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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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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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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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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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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