Health Quotes by Gail Collins

8 Health quotes by Gail Collins

Gail Collins shares eight brief reflections that blend sharp observation with personal experience, offering a nuanced look at health in everyday life.

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I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the…

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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road,…

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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her…

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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people…

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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are…

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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's…

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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came…

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At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost…

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“One law prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court, and carefully defined “negro” as anyone who had one nonwhite grandparent.”

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“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could…

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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to…

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Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't…

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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling…

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Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues…

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The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is…

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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara…

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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a…

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Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

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