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" My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' "
Gail Collins
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Favorite
Life
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" The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy. "
Gail Collins
Politics
Crazy
Loved
" The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally. "
Gail Collins
Political
Unique
Place
" Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony. "
Gail Collins
Irony
Talk
Well
" In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids. "
Gail Collins
College
Career
Pursue
" The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. "
Gail Collins
Living
History
American
" 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. "
Gail Collins
America
People
Old
" 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. "
Gail Collins
Say
Think
Try
" Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.' "
Gail Collins
Women
She
Gender
" Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market. "
Gail Collins
Difficult
Gun
Think
" I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell. "
Gail Collins
Always
Women
Men
" What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.' "
Gail Collins
People
Comeback
Light
" I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional. "
Gail Collins
Economic
Encourage
Most
" I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East. "
Gail Collins
Picture
Kind
Dead
" There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks. "
Gail Collins
Money
Run
Education
" The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half. "
Gail Collins
Woman
Success
Responsibility
" 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 people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals. "
Gail Collins
People
Long
Good
" 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. "
Gail Collins
War
America
Women
" Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy. "
Gail Collins
Good
Voting
Elections
" 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. "
Gail Collins
Crazy
Government
People
" The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling. "
Gail Collins
Women
American
More
" I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. "
Gail Collins
Health
Dog
Car
" Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce. "
Gail Collins
Daily
Divorce
He
" Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it. "
Gail Collins
You
Never
Immigration
" 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. "
Gail Collins
Victory
Tea
Living
" At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded. "
Gail Collins
Beginning
Health
Country
" 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. "
Gail Collins
You
Think
Impact
" I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan. "
Gail Collins
Kind
Politicians
Think
" One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen. "
Gail Collins
Done
Memory
Never
" 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. "
Gail Collins
Changes
Slow
Politicians
" The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy. "
Gail Collins
Great
Story
Women