Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivinswas an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined the Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth30 August 1944
CountryUnited States of America
When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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.
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.