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" My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change. "
Gail Collins
Only
Country
Same
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" The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers. "
Gail Collins
Angry
Tea
Socialism
" 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. "
Gail Collins
Freedom
History
Struggle
" Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term. "
Gail Collins
Know
Finish
Silly
" 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. "
Gail Collins
Women
Future
Hair
" I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade. "
Gail Collins
Mother
Home
Health
" For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population. "
Gail Collins
Immigration
Place
Texas
" Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes. "
Gail Collins
Study
High
Business
" My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' "
Gail Collins
Program
Favorite
Life
" The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her. "
Gail Collins
Back
Believe
Dying
" 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. "
Gail Collins
Control
Conversation
Find
" 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
" 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
" When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point. "
Gail Collins
Rose
Me
History
" 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
" 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
" Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar. "
Gail Collins
Sympathy
Calendar
Good
" 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
" 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
" 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
" You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause. "
Gail Collins
Think
Know
Fairness
" 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
" Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection. "
Gail Collins
Faults
Rejection
Pretty
" There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due. "
Gail Collins
Career
Great
Rich
" 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
" 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
" You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good. "
Gail Collins
Want
You
Shoes
" 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
" It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle. "
Gail Collins
You
Age
Appreciate
" 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
" 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