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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

Molly Ivins

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
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Monterey
California
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Thinking
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Texas
Government

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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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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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As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
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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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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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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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It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
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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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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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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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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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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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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