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Molly Ivins Quotes

American - Journalist | August 30, 1944 - January 31, 2007

I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Father Trouble Authority Always Had

'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.

Great Fun New York New Newspaper

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

Satire Cruel Weapon Quite

The reason I take Rush Limbaugh seriously is not because he's offensive or right-wing, but because he is one of the few people addressing a large group of disaffected people in this country. And despite his frequent denials, Limbaugh does indeed have a somewhat cult-like effect on his ditto heads.

People Country Seriously Group Take

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.

Sorry Fish You Born Nothing Left

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

Sorry Better Person Better You Say

Conservatives, in general, are anti-immigrant for the same reasons they have always been anti-immigrant - a proud tradition in our nation of immigrants going back to the days of the Founders, when Ben Franklin thought we were going to be overrun by Germans. But Business likes illegal workers.

Business Proud Thought Tradition

One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don't have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don't, you shut it down. It works to our benefit - it always has.

Experience Border Texas Long You

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

Life Think My Life You Just Happens

What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life.

Life Live People Treat You Become

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