Texas Women Do the Durndest Things
“Lots of Texas chicks are Hells Angels at heart.” The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas
Texas gals are proud of their big hair, bling, and howdy do’s but under all that, they are frontier gals.
They can skin a catfish, hunt down a bear, and think straighter than an arrow can fly. They can also deep six a female rival with nine words: “My, but you’re a precious lil ole thing.”
Texas women think Perky is a religion. However, take a look at some: Congresswoman Barbara Boxer, the late Texas governor Ann Richards, Mary Kay with her pink dynasty and Ebby Halliday, Queen of Texas residential real estate are anything but fluff balls. A huge favorite of Texas women from progressives to those who would rather run nude through Neiman’s than be called Liberal, was the late Molly Ivins.
Ms. Ivins wrote a feisty down home column which ran in about 350 newspapers. She was rowdy, funny, up front and sliced and diced those she saw as too big for their political britches. When the Texas Legislature opened, she would warn her readers, “every village is about to lose its idiot.”
She loved Texas and she loved our nation and she never gave up on either of them. I figure as long as Molly’s words live on, so does she. So here’s to Molly Ivins:
• “The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.” Molly Ivins
• “The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.”
• “One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope.”
• “If his I.Q. slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day.” (about a congressman)
• from her last column, January 11, 2007: We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we’re for them and trying to get them out of there.
Meditation for the Day
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Voltaire
Action for the Day
A thought for today: Who do I appreciate most and why?
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