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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Journalist
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Monterey
California
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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 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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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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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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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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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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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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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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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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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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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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Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.
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Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
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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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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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Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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