Gail Collins quotes and sayings
Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
Gail Collins quotes
- My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
- Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
- Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
- Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
- 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.
- 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.
- I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
- In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
- Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
- 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.