Molly Ivins quote about Vivian Castleberry

I just found a great profile written about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry in 1996. (Colleen O’Connor, “Vivian Castleberry,” Dallas Morning News, May 12, 1996.) It includes a quote from Molly Ivins: “What Viv was doing on the women’s pages in those years was somewhat subversive. The first treatment of major issues like abortion were on Viv’s pages. Because the male editors in that sexist era paid so little attention to the women’s page, Viv was quietly going about doing remarkable stories that belonged on the front page.”

I am working on a book about Vivian. (I visited with Vivian last summer in her home in Dallas.) I am going through Molly Ivin’s papers this spring thanks to a travel grant from the University of Texas.

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