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Molly Ivins

American Journalist

Born: Aug 30, 1944

Died: Jan 31, 2007

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Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat. Molly Ivins

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When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. Molly Ivins

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Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time. Molly Ivins

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious. Molly Ivins

Funny Easier Always Than Serious Found

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved. Molly Ivins

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to. Molly Ivins

Politics You Matter Like How How Much Much Ignore

Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the 'Today' show, 'No, I don't think it should be overturned.' Three days later, her husband reimposed the 'global gag rule' on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning. Molly Ivins

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I'm happy to be called a liberal. Molly Ivins

Happy Liberal

People like to help. They like to be able to do something for you. Let them. Molly Ivins

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There is never anyone quite so wonderful as the people who were seniors when you were a freshman. Molly Ivins

You People Wonderful Seniors Never Freshman Were Quite Anyone Who

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life. Molly Ivins

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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. Molly Ivins

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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed. Molly Ivins

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One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn't become a better person. Molly Ivins

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse. Molly Ivins

Worse Slightly Paranoid Tends Like Get Being Pregnant

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions. Molly Ivins

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I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind. Molly Ivins

Feeling Kind Would Never Left Any Establishment Media Career

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level. Molly Ivins

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