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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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 more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
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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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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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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 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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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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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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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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