"The middle of 'America's Women' is about the……" — 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 every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency."
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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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More Abolition Quotes
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There…
— Jonathan Schell
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.…
— Karl Marx
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of…
— George Washington
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave…
— Margaret E. Knight
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of…
— Henry George
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