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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
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Monterey
California
Michael
Boys
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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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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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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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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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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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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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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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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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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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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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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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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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