Whatever you do, don’t give up. Because all you can do once you’ve given up is bitch.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]

Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review
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Collected in Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1991).