'Ann Richards’ humor was key to her political success. Her best quips point out the obvious but overlooked, for example: 'Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.'”
There’s a little thrift store in North Austin that has a blue sun-faded Ann Richards yard sign in the window. If you were to inquire, as I did, if the sign was for sale, you’d be politely told “no”—it’s as much a part of the store as the pride flag hanging in the window above clusters of ceramic knickknacks. The store owner did, however, show me another piece of Texas history, a black-and-white photograph under the checkout counter’s plate glass of Ann Richards, Barbara Jordan, and George H. W.
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