Obituaries by Molly Ivins

“When it came to the “memorials preferred” on the obit form, we put in her favorite causes, but if you truly wanted to memorialize my mother, you would eat a piece of fudge today, hug someone you love, and be blindingly pleasant to a total stranger.”

Read Online

Molly Ivins, “Kindness to Everyone,” Texas Observer, January 31, 1997, accessed July 26, 2016, http://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1997/01/31#page=18.

Also Published In

Molly Ivins, “The Good Mother Who Put a Shoe in the Icebox,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram January 9, 1997.

Molly Ivins, “The Good Mother Who Put a Shoe in the Icebox,” in You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (New York: Vintage Books, 1999), 242-5.