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" I worked through cancer twice. I probably worked through it too much the last time. This time, I found myself saying, 'Well, I don't feel well. I think I'll take the day off.' I think I did that even a little bit more than I needed to. "

Molly Ivins

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" Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go. "

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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. "

" Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind. "

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

" As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism. "

" I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric. "

" I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds. "

Molly Ivins

Spent

Among

" One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark. "

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

" And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. "

" The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits. "

" I'm happy to be called a liberal. "

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Happy

Liberal

" Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state if you hunted from Jonesboro to El Dorado. "

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" The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete. "

" Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all. "

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

" When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically. "

" I'd worked for the 'Dallas Times Herald' for ten years, and its death was a kick in the gut the like of which I cannot recall ever having experienced. "

Molly Ivins

Dallas

Years

" The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time. "

" People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact. "