Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

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

— 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

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

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

— Gail Collins

Lobbyists really are experts in their fields and know what they are talking about. That's why the government always listens to them…

— Gail Collins

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a…

— Gail Collins

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in…

— Gail Collins

Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he…

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about…

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part…

— Gail Collins

Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single…

— Gail Collins

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry…

— Gail Collins

To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections…

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The…

— Gail Collins

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

— Gail Collins

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea…

— Gail Collins

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So…

— 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

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men…

— Gail Collins

“Ann Fowler was sentenced to twenty lashes in 1637 for defaming a county justice, Adam Thorowgood, with the somewhat undeferential suggestion that…

— Gail Collins

In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

— Gail Collins

I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places…

— Gail Collins

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

— Gail Collins

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

— Gail Collins

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale.…

— Gail Collins

One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling…

— Gail Collins

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just…

— Gail Collins