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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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
California
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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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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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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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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
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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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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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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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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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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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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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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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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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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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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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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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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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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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