Molly Ivins Quotes - Page 5

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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"?

  Molly Ivins

  Inspiring, Mean, College

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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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  Real, People, Use

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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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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  Able, Sin, Advantage

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.65, Vintage

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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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  Fighting, Texas, Knives

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

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  Groups, Needs, Firsts

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• I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

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  Women, Believe, Years

  "A Burr Under Apathy's Saddle" by Clarence Page, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 5, 2007.

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• Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

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  Texas, Color, Different

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.4, Vintage

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• Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

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  Fun, Cancer, Firsts

  "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?". content.time.com. February 18, 2002.

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• As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

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  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

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  Economic Globalization, Stories, Libertarian

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• Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

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  Needs, World, Tradition

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

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  Pregnancy, Paranoid, Pregnant

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• One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

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  Hard Times, Thinking, Egypt

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• Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

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  War, Female, Profile

  "He Loves Us Not" by Molly Ivins, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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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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  Humor, Thinking, Sky

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.14, Vintage

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• Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

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  Expression, People, Manners

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• If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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  Middle East, Firsts, Steps

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• It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.

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  Girl, Children, Book

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• 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.

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  Water, Would Be, Needs

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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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  Heart, Giving, Deregulation

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• We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

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  Nice, Rap, Home

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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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  Texas, Wind, Trying

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.3, Vintage

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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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  Get Well, Cancer, Needs

  "Ann Richards and Molly Ivins Ain’t Done with Us Yet!" by Linda Milazzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 04, 2007.

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• Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

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  Confusion, Democracy, Certain

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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.

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  Sorry, Heart, Swim

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.118, Vintage

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