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

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• I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

  

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• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

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• I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

  

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• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

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• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  

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• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

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• My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

  

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• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

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• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

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• It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

  

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• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

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• I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

  

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• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

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• I'm really not worried about what fans think.

  

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• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

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• I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

  

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• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

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• Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

  

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• I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

  

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• I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.

  

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• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  

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• 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
  • Women
  • Think
  • Black