Originally Posted By alexbook One of my favorite political writers, Molly Ivins, died yesterday of breast cancer. Molly Ivins was a liberal who ranted with the best of them, but spoke affectionately of George W. Bush. She loved telling weird stories about the Texas state legislator and its long history of eccentric members. Her all-time favorite fan letter began, "Dear Miss Ivins, you are the favorite writer of all us guys here on Cell Block 8." Some great quotes from her: "....our very own dreaded Legislature is almost upon us. Jan. 9 and they'll all be here, leaving many a village without its idiot." "I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years." "As they say around the [Texas] Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office." More quotes: <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4516556.html" target="_blank">http://www.chron.com/disp/stor y.mpl/metropolitan/4516556.html</a> <a href="http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/molly_ivins.htm" target="_blank">http://womenshistory.about.com /od/quotes/a/molly_ivins.htm</a> <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/molly_ivins/" target="_blank">http://thinkexist.com/quotes/m olly_ivins/</a> A biography from a distinctly leftist web site: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/47508/" target="_blank">http://www.alternet.org/story/ 47508/</a>
Originally Posted By Beau Mandy 2 Oh yes, Molly will really be missed. I'm sure she was a great lady.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Certainly a fine and funny writer. "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?" is one of the better books of its type from the last 20 years. Like Ann Richards, she seemed like one of those women my southern-raised Mom would refer to as "sassy" and impossible to dislike, politics aside.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Red hair - glasses in her final days but not when she was arguably most famous. <a href="http://www.csus.edu/news/103001ivins.htm" target="_blank">http://www.csus.edu/news/10300 1ivins.htm</a>
