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Gail Collins Quotes

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

Gail Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Women Black Think Slow Movement Get

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

Jewel

Life Home Red Value Dress Think

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness Sweet Reward Goodness Act

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

Age Maturity Price Pay High Very

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.

Ronald Kessler

Service Culture Will Secret Outside

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.

Rumaan Alam

Life Art Empathy Writing Think Down

Ring Kuot, a 15-year-old Sudanese boy, was rumored to be eight feet three. And until Leonid's emergence at eight feet four inches last spring, people generally assumed that Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, at seven feet nine, was the tallest documented man in the world.

Michael Paterniti

Man Spring People World Feet Three

I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.

Mira Nair

Life Love Passion Struggle Without

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Luis Bunuel

God Team Country Oppression Break

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Douglas Coupland

Failure Music Random Kind Band Big

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

Dennis Brown

Music Day People Me Looks London

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Dean Smith

Life Death Game Problems You Dead

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

Chris Cooper

Decision Me Strong Three Rule Four