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Gail Collins

Born

in Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States

November 25, 1945

Website

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Genre

Nonfiction, History, Politics

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Gail Collins was the Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times from 2001 to January 1, 2007. She was the first woman Editorial Page Editor at the Times.

Born as Gail Gleason, Collins has a degree in journalism from Marquette University and an M.A. in government from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Beyond her work as a journalist, Collins has published several books; Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics, America's Woman: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines, and The Millennium Book which she co-authored with her husband Dan Collins.

She was also a journalism instructor at Southern Connecticut State University.
She is married to Dan Collins of CBS.
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The Defeat of Kamala Harris Is Not the End of the Story

The woman-president thing is more than just a check mark on the feminist to-do list.

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	When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present 4.06 avg rating — 5,606 ratings — published 2009 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines 4.16 avg rating — 4,852 ratings — published 2004 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 1,905 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda 3.65 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America 3.66 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics 3.72 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grit, Courage and Change: Women in the Last 50 Years really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Millennium Book: Your Essential All-Purpose Guide for the Year 2000 by Gail Collins, Dan Collins 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Re-Creatively: A Spiritual Quest for Women it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Papua New Guinea Pearls: An Expat Perspective 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you can’t say anything nice about somebody, step away from the voice enhancement equipment.”
― Gail Collins

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“The term “tomboy,” one nineteenth-century author recalled, looking back at the pre–Civil War era, “was applied to all little girls who showed the least tendency toward thinking and acting for themselves.”
― Gail Collins, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

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“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren’t supposed to do.”
― Gail Collins, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

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