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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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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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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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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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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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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
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My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions? I asked her. That's why we take siestas, she replied.
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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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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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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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Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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