Gail Collins Quotes

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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 to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.

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  Country, Party, Believe

  "An Ethnic Map". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

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  Funny, Ice, Cubes

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

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  America, Grew Up, Grew

  "What the Tea Party Really Wants". Conversation, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

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  Crazy, Government, People

  "Who Decided That This Election Should Be About Sex?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

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  Kings, Husband, School

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• 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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  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest day, it broke my heart But I still see you every day Because in my heart and mind you stay.

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  Sympathy, Heart, Hug

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• My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

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  Dream, Nsa, Rifles

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• 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 grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

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  Kids, Grandparent, Birth Control

  "Apocalypse Iowa". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 04, 2012.

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• My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

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  Vampire, Program, Slayer

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

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  Party, Swings, Political

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• The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

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  Jobs, Ocean, Home

  Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• 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 have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

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  Thinking, America, Issues

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• 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 hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

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  Wall, Makeup, Hair

  "How You Can Get Everything Your Mom Couldn't". Interview with Ashley Womble, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

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  Dog, Government, Order

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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 America they grew up in.

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  America, People, Grew Up

  "What the Tea Party Really Wants". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 1, 2010.

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• 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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  War, Black And White, America

  Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

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  People, Needs, Heroic

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• You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

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  Jobs, Law, Ideas

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2013.

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• There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.

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  Hate, Rights, Order

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.

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  Appreciation, People, Water

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.

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  Daughter, Book, School

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

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  Cutting, College, Government

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

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  Husband, Nice, Thinking

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• Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

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  Moving, Thinking, Law

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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