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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

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[Young women], who were supposed to be preparing to take over the world, sometimes looked more as if they were planning on a career in the sex-services industry. They had spent their formative years watching Sex and the City, whose messages were: (1) Only girlfriends last forever, and (2) Anything worth doing is worth doing in a tutu and stiletto heels.

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The story in American history I most like to tell is the one about how women got the right to vote 90 years ago this month. It has everything. Adventure! Suspense! Treachery! Drunken legislators!

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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.

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The sum total of women's athletic scholarships for the entire nation in 1972 [the year Title IX was enacted] was $100,000.

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We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

Gail Collins

Gail Collins

Gail Collins

Born: November 25, 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Gail Collins is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with the New York Times.

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America's Women (2003)

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