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Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

Molly Ivins

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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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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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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I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.
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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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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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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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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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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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You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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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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