Barbara Jordan
“Her personal dignity was so massive, even those who admired her hesitated to approach her. No one will ever know how lonely she was at the beginning.”
Molly Ivins, “She Sounded Like God,” The New York Times Magazine December 29, 1996.
Also Published In
Molly Ivins, “Barbara Jordan,” in Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known (New York: Random House, 2004), 299-301.
Molly Ivins, “She Sounded Like God,” You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (New York: Vintage Books, 1999), 231-3.
Other Versions
Molly Ivins, “A Great Spirit,” Dallas Observer, January 25, 1996, accessed September 27, 2016, http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/a-great-spirit-6398154.
Molly Ivins, “Eloquent Barbara Jordan: A Great Spirit Has Left US,” Seattle Times, January 22, 1996, accessed September 27, 2016, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960122&slug=2310099.
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