Gail Collins

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

— Gail Collins

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

— Gail Collins

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

— Gail Collins

“If you can’t say anything nice about somebody, step away from the voice enhancement equipment.”

— Gail Collins

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

— Gail Collins

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

— Gail Collins

This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year

— Gail Collins

Over the long run, many of Perry's stances boil down to following the money.

— Gail Collins

My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they…

— Gail Collins

Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work…

— Gail Collins

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were…

— Gail Collins

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to…

— Gail Collins

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating…

— Gail Collins

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

— Gail Collins

The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a…

— Gail Collins

I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's…

— Gail Collins

There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order.…

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their…

— Gail Collins

I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him…

— Gail Collins

I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though…

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want…

— Gail Collins

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone…

— Gail Collins

“1924, the first two women were elected governors, and both were uninspiring stand-ins for their husbands. Nellie Tayloe Ross, the widow of…

— Gail Collins

“The aggressive use of new medical tools went beyond castration. Dr. Marion Sims discovered a condition called “vaginismus,” in which a woman…

— Gail Collins

“The bottle of morphine is wrapped up and passed to the child over the counter,” a Tennessee doctor wrote. Doctors and pharmacists…

— Gail Collins

“Eleanor was a member of one of America’s great families, niece to Teddy Roosevelt and a distant cousin of her future husband.…

— Gail Collins

“One pioneer remembered seeing “an open bleak prairie, the cold wind howling overhead…a new-made grave, a woman and three children sitting near…

— Gail Collins

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

— Gail Collins

“How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker”

— Gail Collins

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

— Gail Collins

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life…

— Gail Collins

“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the…

— Gail Collins

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a…

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a…

— Gail Collins