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
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.
Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
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.
This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.
Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion