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Gail Collins Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 25, 1945

Topics

Women Black And White War Slavery

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

John Henry Newman

Best Thoughts Said Matters Judgment

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

Angela Merkel

Sports Day End Of The Day End Games

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.

Sophie Okonedo

Myself Feel Worry You Look Bad

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.

Shraddha Kapoor

Mentor Favorite Directors

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Trey Anastasio

Music Trying You Go Out Tell

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Roger Ascham

Learning Good Will Wit Praise

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

Rose McGowan

Men People Dangerous Tall Height

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

Mike Figgis

Thought Bad Done Nothing Ashamed

I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

Don McCullin

Fight School Violence You Bad Place

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

Dennis Prager

Father Men Words Husband Generation

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

DeRay Mckesson

Life Day Me Credit Information Text

I do not like confrontations in New York City.

Chris Gethard

New York City New Like New York City