Gail Collins Quotes

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

Gail Collins

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It was a raw country, and the first generations of colonial women did things that their granddaughters would have found unthinkable.

It was a raw country, and the first generations of colonial women did things that their granddaughters would have found unthinkable.

Gail Collins

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Gail Collins (born November 25, 1945) is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with The New York Times. Joining the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor from 2001 to 2007 and was the first woman to attain that position.
Collins writes a semi-weekly op-ed column for the Times from her liberal perspective, published Thursdays and Saturdays. Since 2014 she has co-authored a blog with conservative journalist Bret Stephens entitled "The Conversation", at NYTimes.com, featuring bi-partisan political commentary.

Gail Collins Quotes

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

It was a raw country, and the first generations of colonial women did things that their granddaughters would have found unthinkable.

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Admirers of Jefferson might best be advised to skip everything he ever wrote about women and restrict their attention to the Declaration of Independence.)

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The dissolution of the normal boundaries between women’s work and men’s allowed some women to operate with an independence the nation would never really see again until the twentieth century.

It’s hard to imagine how women made the leap into professions for which they had no role models, no invitation, and very little encouragement.

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Sanger was asked to write a column on sex education, What Every Girl Should Know, for The Call, a daily newspaper with socialist sympathies. When she tackled the subject of venereal disease, her colum...

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The history of American women is all about leaving home—crossing

Looking back, it’s easy to see the clothes as a metaphor for everything else that happened to women in postwar America.

And even in circumstances less critical, women were almost always welcomed in new enterprises that hadn’t yet become either prestigious or profitable—whether it was early radio or early cattle drives.

Fifth of American families lived on farms in the 1930s,

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Next to the sale of their children or spouse, rape was perhaps the worst nightmare of slavery. We have no way of knowing how often it happened... We do know that white women were haunted by the fear t...

Truth was one of the few public women of her day who did not pick favorites when it came to the claims of race and sex. If colored men get their rights and not colored women theirs, you see the colore...

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 about changing the corporate min...

The department stores also imposed a new, very American kind of democracy, in which everyone was equal as long as they had the money to pay. (Marshall Field instructed his clerks to call all customers...