"The history of American women is about the……" — Gail Collins
"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 perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders."
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81 Quotes by Gail Collins
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Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is…
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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…
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the…
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Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change…
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look…
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of…
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If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country…
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Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea…
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You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I…
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about.…
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
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