Molly Ivins Explained

Molly Ivins
Birth Date:	1944 8, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Monterey, California, U.S.
Death Place:	Austin, Texas, U.S.
Education:	Smith College Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Period:	1967–2007

Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, and political commentator, known for her humorous and insightful writing, which often used satire and wit to critique political figures and policies.

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 1980s, and then the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered in 1991. Her column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and carried by hundreds of newspapers.

A biography of Ivins, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 said:

Early life

Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas. Her father, James Ivins, known as "General Jim" because of his rigid authoritarianism (or sometimes "Admiral Jim" for his love of sailing), was an oil and gas executive, and the family lived in Houston's affluent River Oaks neighborhood. Ivins graduated from St. John's School in 1962. In high school, she was active in extracurricular activities, including the yearbook staff. She had her first pieces of journalism published in The Review, the official student newspaper of St. John's School, though she never wrote any of the political columns that would become her specialty later in life. Ivins later became co-editor of the arts and culture section of the student paper. In addition, she frequently participated in theater productions and earned a lifetime membership in Johnnycake, the drama club.

Ivins enrolled in Scripps College in 1962, but was not happy there, and transferred to Smith College in 1963. During that time, she became romantically involved with Henry "Hank" Holland, Jr., a family friend and student at Yale whom she referred to as "the love of my life". After he was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1964, her friends would later say that she never seemed to find anyone else who could replace his memory. Some say that is why she never married. She spent her junior year at the Institute of Political Science in Paris and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1966. She earned a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism in 1967.^{[1] [2]}

Career

While at Smith, Ivins spent three summers as an intern at the Houston Chronicle. Her jobs there included the complaint department as well as "sewer editor", as she put it, responsible for reporting on the nuts and bolts of local city life. After graduating from Columbia, she took a job in the Twin Cities at the Minneapolis Tribune, where she covered "militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers".^[3]

In 1970 Ivins left the Tribune for the city of Austin, Texas, hired by Ronnie Dugger,^[4] to be the co-editor and political reporter for The Texas Observer.^[5] She covered the Texas Legislature and befriended folklorist John Henry Faulk, Secretary of State Bob Bullock and future Governor Ann Richards, among others.^[6] She also gained increasing national attention through op-ed and feature stories in The New York Times and The Washington Post along with a busy speaking schedule inside and outside Texas.^[5] The Times, concerned that its prevailing writing style was too staid and lifeless, hired her away from the Observer in 1976,^[7] and she wrote for the Times until 1982. During her run there, Ivins became Rocky Mountain bureau chief, covering nine western states, although she was known to say she was named chief because there was no one else in the bureau.

Ivins also wrote the obituary for Elvis Presley in The New York Times for the August 17, 1977, edition.^[8] Generally, her more colorful writing style clashed with the editors' expectations, and in 1980, after she wrote about a "community chicken-killing festival" in New Mexico and called it a "gang-pluck", she was recalled to New York City as punishment. When Abe Rosenthal, editor of the Times, accused her of trying to inspire readers to think "dirty thoughts" with these words, her response was, "Damn if I could fool you, Mr. Rosenthal." In late 1981, after receiving an offer from the Dallas Times Herald to write a column about anything she liked, Ivins left New York City for Dallas.^[5]

Ivins wrote for the Dallas Times Herald for ten years and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize twice.^{[5] [9]} By 1985 the editors had moved her to the paper's Austin bureau to reduce friction with Dallas city leaders.^[5] Her freelance work and speaking engagements continued to grow, and she hired Elizabeth Faulk, John Henry Faulk's widow, as a personal assistant. In 1991, her book Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? was published, and spent 29 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Also in 1991, rival newspaper, The Dallas Morning News bought the Times Herald and closed it down. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram immediately made Ivins an offer and said she could stay in Austin. Ivins accepted, and wrote a column for the Fort Worth paper from 1992 until 2001, when she became an independent journalist. Her column, syndicated by Creators Syndicate, eventually appeared in nearly 400 newspapers nationwide. Ivins also remained a board member and contributor to the Texas Democracy Foundation, which publishes the Texas Observer in Austin.^[10]

She also wrote for the Progressive, the Nation, Newsweek, Mother Jones, McCall's and Playboy. She has appeared on Nightline, PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation.^[11]

Plagiarism allegations

In 1995, humorist Florence King wrote an article in The American Enterprise claiming that Ivins had plagiarized King's work in a 1988 Mother Jones article. Like Ivins, King—who was referred to as the "Queen of Mean" by National Review, which published her columns—pulled no punches in her writing. David Rubien, writing in Salon, described the incident: "In a 1995 article for Mother Jones on Southern manners and mores, she extensively quoted, with affectionate attribution, statements from Florence King's book Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. But for some careless reason Ivins still fails to comprehend, she left the attribution off a few King statements."^[12] Ivins had also included her own words in a quotation she attributed to King. Ivins wrote a letter of apology to King, but characteristically ended it with: "As for the rest of your observations about me and my work ..., boy you really are a mean bitch, aren't you? Sincerely, Molly Ivins, plagiarist." The American Enterprise published Ivins's apology and King's reply in a later issue.^[13]

Health issues

For more than three decades, Ivins struggled with alcoholism, described in her The Nation obituary as an "occupational hazard" of journalism. In her notebooks, she wrote of her struggles, "I should like to think the biggest mistake I have made in the first 30 years of my life was to start drinking and keep drinking" and "I have wasted so much time by getting drunk ... I have jeopardized my job from drinking and failed in my responsibilities as a journalist."^[14]

Late in her life, she took some steps to treat the condition, spending some time at a "drunk school", then attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings for the last year-and-a-half of her life.^[15]

In 1999, Ivins was diagnosed with stage III inflammatory breast cancer. The cancer recurred in 2003 and again in late 2005. In January 2006, she reported that she was again undergoing chemotherapy.^[16] In December 2006, she took leave from her column to again undergo treatment.^[17] She wrote two columns in January 2007 but returned to the hospital on January 26 for further treatment.^[18]

Death

Ivins died at her Austin, Texas, home in hospice care on January 31, 2007, at age 62.^[19]

After her death, George W. Bush, a frequent target of her barbs, said in a statement, "I respected her convictions, her passionate belief in the power of words. She fought her illness with that same passion. Her quick wit and commitment will be missed."^[20]

The Molly Ivins Papers are at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, while her personal library was donated to the Witliff Collections at Texas State University.^[21]

From August 23 to October 28, 2012, actress Kathleen Turner portrayed Molly Ivins in the play by twin sisters and journalists Margaret and Allison Engel at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.,^{[22] [23]} and at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California. Janice Engel (no relation^[24]) produced and directed a documentary, "Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins," inspired by the play.^{[25] [26] [27] [28]}

Beliefs

Writing from an unabashedly populist perspective,^[29] Ivins repeatedly described herself as a populist and, on some occasions, as a left-libertarian.^[30] Ivins peppered her columns with colorful phrases to create the "feel" of Texas. Her writings often employ irony and satirical humor to make a very serious point. For example, in her 1993 essay "Taking a Stab at Our Infatuation with Guns", she begins by saying:^[31]

When outraged by instances of what she considered malfeasance or stupidity on the part of public officials, she couched her argument in an air of stunned amusement. She enjoyed telling stories about the Texas Legislature, which she simply called "The Lege", calling it one of the most corrupt, incompetent, and funniest governing bodies in the nation. For example:

Practice, practice, practice, that's what Texas provides when it comes to sleaze and stink. Who can forget such great explanations as "Well, I'll just make a little bit of money, I won't make a whole lot"? And "There was never a Bible in the room"?^[32]

In 2003, she coined the term "Great Liberal Backlash of 2003", and was a passionate critic of the 2003 Iraq War.^[33] She is also credited with applying the nicknames "Shrub" and "Dubya" to George W. Bush. Ivins supported affirmative action and denounced President Bush for choosing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to announce his opposition to the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan.^[34]

Quotations

Notable quotes^[35] attributed to Ivins include:

• "Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don’t much care for… politics is not about those people in Washington, those people in your state capitol… this country is run by us, it is our deal, we run this country, we are the board of directors, we own it, they are just the people we’ve hired to drive the bus for a while."^[36]
• On the subject of Pat Buchanan's combative Culture War Speech at the 1992 Republican Convention, which attracted controversy over Buchanan's aggressive rhetoric against Bill Clinton, liberals, supporters of abortion and gay rights, and for his comparison of American politics to religious warfare, Ivins quipped that the speech had "probably sounded better in the original German".^[37]
• "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. ... We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'" (from her last column)^[38]
• "Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that."^[39]
• "So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you 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. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was."—quoted by John Nichols for The Nation^[40] Original source: "The Fun's in the Fight" column for Mother Jones, 1993.^[41] Part of the original quote is currently posted in The Daily Beast offices.^[42]
• On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal." (Introduction to You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You)^[43]
• On James M. Collins, U.S. Representative, R-Dallas: "If his IQ slips any lower we'll have to water him twice a day." Collins had said that the current energy crisis could be averted if "we didn't use all that gas on school busing."^[44] Ivins's quote engendered substantial controversy, with calls and letters pouring into her newspaper, The Dallas Times Herald. The newspaper turned the controversy into a publicity campaign, with billboards all over the city asking, "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?"—which she later employed as the title for her first book.^[45]
• "Of Bush's credentials as an economic conservative, there is no question at all—he owes his political life to big corporate money; he's a CEO's wet dream. He carries their water, he's stumpbroke—however you put it, George W. Bush is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America. ... We can find no evidence that it has ever occurred to him to question whether it is wise to do what big business wants."^[46]

Awards

• William Allen White Award from the University of Kansas (2001)^[47]
• Smith Medal from Smith College (2001)^[48]
• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)^{[49] [50]}
• Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service (2003)^[51]
• Pringle Prize for Washington Journalism from Columbia University (2003)^[49]
• Eugene V. Debs Award in the field of journalism (2003)^[49]
• David Brower Award for journalism from the Sierra Club (2004)^[49]
• David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University (2006)^[52]
• The Molly National Journalism Prize from the Texas Democracy Foundation (2006)^[53]
• Otis Social Justice Award from Wheaton College, MA (2004)

In addition to these formal awards, Ivins said that she was particularly proud of two distinct honors—having the Minneapolis police force's mascot pig named after her, and being banned from the Texas A&M campus.^[54]

Works

Newspaper articles

• Molly Ivins at the Texas Observer, from 1970 through 1976; and syndicated columns
• Selected Articles by Molly Ivins, The New York Times (1977—1980)
• "By Molly Ivins" site:washingtonpost.com (1981—2007)
• https://www.dallasobserver.com/author/molly-ivins (1994—1996)
• Molly Ivins column archive at Creators Syndicate

• Molly Ivins tribute, written by her long-time editor Anthony Zurcher.
• Molly Ivins @ motherjones.com
• Molly Ivins @ truthdig.com 2006
• Stories by Molly Ivins at AlterNet

Books

Books by Molly Ivins, in chronological order:

• The Edge of the West and Other Texas Stories with Bryan Wooley (Texas Western Pr, 1987)
• Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (Random House, 1991)
• Nothin' But Good Times Ahead (Random House, 1993)
• You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years (Random House, 1998)
• Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush with Lou Dubose (Random House, 2000)
• The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President (2001) with Vincent Bugliosi (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001)
• Sugar's Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother by Sugar Turner and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers, foreword by Molly Ivins (University of Texas Press, 2002)
• Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce, foreword by Molly Ivins (PublicAffairs, 2002)
• Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America with Lou Dubose (Random House, 2003)
• Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known (Random House, 2004)
• Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights (Random House, 2007)

Selected C-SPAN interviews

(Source^[55])

Biographical documentary

In 2019 a documentary called Raise Hell: The Life and times of Molly Ivins was released.^{[56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]}

Legacy

The MOLLY National Journalism Prize honors Molly Ivins' legacy.^[63]

Ivins, is the subject of a one-woman play, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, written by twin-sister journalists, Alison and Margaret Engels.^[64]

Further reading

• Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith, 2009, PublicAffairs ^{[65] [66] [67] [68]}

Notes

• Ivins, Molly. "Bush-hater strikes again". The Free Press. October 16, 2003.
• Ivins, Molly. "There Goes the Electrical Grid". AlterNet. July 12, 2005.
• Ivins, Molly. "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?" Time Magazine. February 18, 2002.
• Robert Siegel and Wade Goodwyn, "Molly Ivins Dies at 62 After Bout with Breast Cancer", including interviews with and commentaries by Ivins, NPR, January 31, 2007.

External links

• Mother Jones archives
• The Nation archives
• Texas Observer archives
• Molly Ivins @ encyclopedia.com

Papers

• Disk image containing Molly Ivins' files for her column at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

• http://hdl.handle.net/2152/14966
• Molly Ivins Papers, 1936, 1944-2008

• https://hdl.handle.net/2152/14712

Interviews

• https://www.c-span.org/person/?16803/MollyIvins

Notes and References

1. http://provost.syr.edu/lectures/Ivins.asp Syracuse U. Bio
2. https://www.pbs.org/now/politics/ivins05.html NOW, Ivins' Bio
3. http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1 The Free Press – Independent Media – Molly Ivins
4. News: Famous Texans: Molly Ivins . Mysa . Lone Star Internet, Inc . December 26, 2014. Winner . Lucky .
5. Book: Minutaglio, Bill. Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life. W. Michael Smith. 2009. PublicAffairs. New York. 978-1-58648-717-1.
6. https://niemanreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Summer-Autumn-1977_150.pdf
7. http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/12/12/ivins/index2.html Salon.com
8. https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/03/specials/presley-obit.html Elvis obituary
9. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes, Commentary. www.pulitzer.org. March 9, 2015.
10. Joe Holley, the Columbia Journalism Review, A mid-life crisis in Texas, January/February 1995. Retrieved February 4, 2007.
11. Web site: The Price of Being Molly . November 1992 .
12. News: Rubien. David. Salon. Molly Ivins. Dec 12, 2000. January 27, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070203084456/http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/12/12/ivins/index.html. February 3, 2007. dead.
13. Author, Author!. The American Enterprise. 1995. https://web.archive.org/web/20040226113532/http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.16475/article_detail.asp. February 26, 2004.
14. Web site: Buchholz . Brad . No pedestal . Austin American-Statesman . June 5, 2018 .
15. Remembering Molly Ivins . The Nation . June 5, 2018 . February 1, 2007 . September 3, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180903013538/https://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-molly-ivins/ . dead .
16. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3618697.html Houston Chronicle, expired link
17. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003520952 Ivins Takes Leave for Cancer Treatment
18. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4502269.html Ivins hospitalized in ongoing cancer fight
19. News: Newspaper Columnist Molly Ivins Dies at 62 . February 1, 2007 . Voice of America . VOA News . December 25, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081202192056/http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-02/2007-02-01-voa21.cfm . December 2, 2008 .
20. Kelley Shannon, Associated Press, Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins dies, February 1, 2007.
21. Web site: Molly Ivins . The Witliff Collections . nd . 2023-12-03.
22. https://www.npr.org/2012/09/06/160686509/turner-channels-molly-ivins-in-red-hot-patriot NPR: Turner Channels Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot
23. Web site: Baltimore Sun, August 30, 2012, Kathleen Turner Shines as Molly Ivins, by Tim Smith . September 13, 2012 . September 2, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120902233449/http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/classicalmusic/2012/08/kathleen_turner_shines_as_moll.html . dead .
24. News: New Documentary Revives Molly Ivins's Sharp Wit in the Age of Trump . . Jason . Cohen . March 8, 2019 . September 3, 2019.
25. News: The Texas Observer. Rose . Cahalan . Fearless and Funny, Molly Ivins Comes to Life in 'Raise Hell'. March 11, 2019 . April 13, 2019 .
26. News: MollyIvinsFilm.com . April 13, 2019 .
27. News: 'Laughter is the great unifier' – behind the incredible life of Molly Ivins . March 18, 2019 . . Martin . Pengelly. April 13, 2019 .
28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5DBTHA6xQs Documentary Premieres: Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
29. Web site: Dog Pound . https://archive.today/20130410225020/http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:4253 . dead . April 10, 2013 . February 21, 2011 . Bramer, David . September 8, 2004 . Creative Loafing . If I say Molly Ivins is a populist, what does that mean? In the simplest terms, I suppose, it means that she allies herself, philosophically and politically, with "the people" and is suspicious of the powerful, of "elites." .
30. News: We'll remember Molly Ivins for disturbing the complacent . February 21, 2011 . Seewald, William H. . February 16, 2007 . Amarillo Globe-News. The most widely syndicated liberal columnist in the country, Molly often brought the only voice of dissent to opinion pages all across the broad "red state" swath of the American heartland. Some of the vitriolic reactions appearing in this paper have been extraordinary, even by the deteriorated standards of American political discourse, so perhaps a few observations are appropriate. Ivins was quoted as saying, "I don't have an agenda, I don't have a program. I'm not a communist or a socialist. I guess I'm a left-libertarian and a populist, and I believe in the Bill of Rights the way some folks believe in the Bible.".
31. News: Taking A Stab At Our Infatuation With Guns. Molly Ivins. The Seattle Times. March 15, 1993.
32. Web site: More Texan sleaze and stink . 2011-02-21 . Ivins, Molly . 2006-01-06 . The Columbus Free Press. What does not make me proud to be an American is a specific twist in the Jack Abramoff/Tom DeLay scandal—in fact, this makes me want to urp despite the fact that I have a strong stomach when it comes to political corruption. Practice, practice, practice, that's what Texas provides when it comes to sleaze and stink. Who can forget such great explanations as "Well, I'll just make a little bit of money, I won't make a whole lot"? And "There was never a Bible in the room"?.
33. News: Missing Molly Ivins . February 21, 2011 . Krugman, Paul . February 2, 2007 . The New York Times. Molly Ivins, the Texas columnist, died of breast cancer on Wednesday. I first met her more than three years ago, when our book tours crossed. She was, as she wrote, 'a card-carrying member of The Great Liberal Backlash of 2003, one of the half-dozen or so writers now schlepping around the country promoting books that do not speak kindly of Our Leader's record.'.
34. News: Silliness From Molly Ivins . National Review.
35. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2849&context=all_dissertations
36. Web site: 3 Ways Molly Ivins Keeps Raising Hell | ACLU of Texas | We defend the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Texas, by working through the legislature, the courts, and in the streets . March 15, 2019 .
37. • News: Ivins . Molly . Molly Ivins . Notes From Another Country . September 14, 1992 . . April 20, 2017.
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20170422033659/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-12669147.html
38. Web site: Ivins . Molly . Molly Ivins . Stand Up Against the "Surge" . January 12, 2007 . . April 3, 2007.
39. Ivins . Molly . Molly Ivins . Who Needs Breasts, Anyway? . February 18, 2002 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20070214144909/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001832-1,00.html . dead . February 14, 2007 . February 1, 2007.
40. News: Nichols . John . John Nichols (journalist) . Remembering Molly Ivins . January 31, 2001 . . February 1, 2007 . August 19, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150819223849/http://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-molly-ivins/ . dead .
41. News: Ivins . Molly . Molly Ivins . The Fun's in the Fight . May 1993 . . April 20, 2017.
42. Web site: John Avlon . Instagram . 2016 . Ivin's Quote at The Daily Beast . https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/BI3wfkmh7Pc . 2021-12-24 . limited. December 29, 2016.
43. News: Staff . The Quotable Ivins . December 12, 2000 . . April 20, 2017 .
44. News: Hoppe. Christy . Columnist, author Molly Ivins dies . February 1, 2007 . . February 2, 2007.
45. Remembering Columnist Molly Ivins . February 1, 2007 . . . February 2, 2007. Specifically excerpts from interviews on October 3, 1991 and October 7, 2003.
46. Book: Ivins . Molly . Molly Ivins . Dubose . Lou . Louis Dubose . Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush . 2000 . . . 0-375-50399-4 .
47. Web site: William Allen White Award . November 4, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060909004557/http://waw.emporia.edu/ . September 9, 2006 . dead .
48. http://www.smith.edu/newssmith/NSSpr01/news.html Smith College
49. http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins-about.html Ivins Bio, Creators Syndicate
50. Web site: List of Active Members by Classes. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. January 31, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20081029152519/http://www.amacad.org/members/class_section.pdf. October 29, 2008. dead.
51. Buzz Words (Georgia Tech Alumni Association), Columnist Ivins Wins Ivan Allen Prize
52. [Harvard University]
53. http://www.texasobserver.org/event_molly_award.php The Molly Award
54. Web site: Newcomb. Douglas. The Long and Happy Life of a Political Columnist. Information Outlook. Special Libraries Association. May 2001. February 1, 2007. dead. https://archive.today/20120210060501/http://www.sla.org/content/Shop/Information/infoonline/2001/may01/ivins_may.cfm. February 10, 2012.
55. https://www.c-span.org/person/?16803/MollyIvins
56. Web site: Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins - Official Trailer . . October 4, 2019 .
57. Web site: Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins movie review (2019) | Roger Ebert .
58. Web site: Raise Hell | A Magnolia Pictures Film | OWN IT ON DVD OR DIGITAL HD .
59. News: 'Raise Hell' Review: For Molly Ivins, Writing Was Fighting . The New York Times . September 5, 2019 . Dargis . Manohla .
60. News: Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins review – memorial to a liberal legend . The Guardian . October 22, 2020 . Felperin . Leslie .
61. Web site: Political commentary can be both caustic and incisive. Molly Ivins showed America how . August 28, 2019 .
62. https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-kennedy/article234789942.html
63. Web site: MOLLY National Journalism Prizes .
64. Web site: Tina Packer Plays Molly Ivins, A 'Red Hot Patriot' . August 18, 2011 .
65. Web site: Book TV: Bill Minutaglio & W. Michael Smith "Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life" . . January 8, 2010 .
66. Web site: Bill Minutaglio .
67. https://www.c-span.org/video/?290685-1/molly-ivins-rebel-life
68. Web site: "Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life:" Fearless, funny and opinionated . November 22, 2009 .