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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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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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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.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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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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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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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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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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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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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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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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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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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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
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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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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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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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