tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28633811.post5967446296082626584..comments2023-10-29T09:20:01.247-05:00Comments on In This Moment: Thank you, Molly.Diane Silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01134079095789524153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28633811.post-60706300373273197832007-02-11T16:11:00.000-06:002007-02-11T16:11:00.000-06:00I too posted about Molly's passing. What a loss.S...I too posted about Molly's passing. What a loss.<BR/>So we have to be twice as noisy, now. She would want us that way, after all.<BR/><BR/>Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, and Harriet Woods, all in a few short months.--Blue Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12854640389251231141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28633811.post-63341101180535391942007-02-02T09:44:00.000-06:002007-02-02T09:44:00.000-06:00I wrote this yesterday to a friend:
“Just found ou...I wrote this yesterday to a friend:<br />“Just found out that Molly Ivins had passed away last night. What a loss! I will certainly miss her sardonic wit. She had such a way with words: She could skewer the be-jesus out of political hacks; but, she was never mean or cruel when she left them flapping in the wind.”<br /><br />Added thoughts today:<br />Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, Molly Ivins: all grand dames - all gone. God bless them. I miss all of them. We are all the poorer for their loss. American, now more-than-ever, needs the kind of wit and WISDOM these magnificent Texans gave to all of us.<br /> <br />In Molly Ivin’s last column, she wrote about that person she nicknamed “Shrub”:<br />“The president of the United States does not have the sense God gave a duck -- so it’s up to us. You and Me.” Sadly, now it’s only US to carry on the struggle or as Miss Molly said much better (brought back to our attention in E.J. Dionne‘s obit for Molly):<br />“Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.” To follow this injunction, would be the most fitting tribute we could give this marvelous woman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28633811.post-126041963364292002007-02-01T08:23:00.000-06:002007-02-01T08:23:00.000-06:00I woke up writing a post about Molly Ivins in my h...I woke up writing a post about Molly Ivins in my head, but I see Diane actually got up and did it. I started reading Molly when she was writing for the <i>Texas Observer</i> back in the 1970s and I've been a fan ever since. <br />Molly was that rare breed, the Texas Liberal (I won't call it a dying breed, because I suspect there are about as many of us as there ever were, but it's never been a large group.) She was both all Texas and all liberal -- her roots were solid and so were her politics. <br />That's the kind of Texan I am, the kind I was raised to be. It's one of the reasons neither Molly nor I had much use for Dubya Bush. <br />It seems so unfair that we've lost both Ann Richards and Molly Ivins so close together -- two bright, funny, outrageous women who showed us that women could lead and could write and could do it while maintaining their own personalities and identities. <br />Molly should have been around another 20 or 30 years, keeping us on our toes.Nancy Jane Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01030267999537291250noreply@blogger.com