Molly Ivins - Molly Ivins can't say that, can she? (1991)

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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

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Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

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Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion, with others an art.

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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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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

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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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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

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Texans do not talk like other Americans... shit is a three-syllable word with a y in it.

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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point—race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

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I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

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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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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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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

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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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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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