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- Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
- Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not…
- The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon,…
- In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
- The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
- For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane…
- Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the…
- My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once…
- Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine…
- Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their…
- The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was…
- The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out…
- The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period…
- 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 women's…
- When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their…
- 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 you…
- You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the…
- How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What…
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