Gail Collins
Related When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently wri... ALISON WEIR GEORGE CLOONEY FRANCOIS NARS HELEN FIELDING REBECCA TRAISTER GINA BARRECA I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON CATHERINE BELL DOROTHY ALLISON RALPH LAUREN JAMEELA JAMIL NOAM CHOMSKY I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women ... FOXY BROWN NORA EPHRON Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothe... INES DE LA FRESSANGE LITTLE RICHARD AZAR NAFISI JENNIFER GARNER Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes a... B. D. WONG FRANCOIS NARS CAMILLE PAGLIA COCO CHANEL LYNSEY ADDARIO ROBERT SMITH NINA GARCIA PAUL WESLEY LILY JAMES GUY FIERI SUSAN FALUDI MILO YIANNOPOULOS American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work... MICHAEL KORS DENNIS RODMAN I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was ... CAROLINE BUCHANAN I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li... HALEY BENNETT BELLA ABZUG When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up ... CHRISTINE SINCLAIR CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE MIREILLE GUILIANO BELL HOOKS People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never... CATHERINE HICKS Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&... LANCE HENRIKSEN CHARLOTTE BUNCH DOROTHY ALLISON With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or w... BECKY LYNCH It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. BARRY WATSON Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other wome... AMANDA TAPPING I don't like to try very hard. Most of the time it's just jeans, a T-shirt and Converse trai... JESSICA HART AVA DUVERNAY When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, th... ABIGAIL WASHBURN JOANNA LUMLEY CHANTAL KREVIAZUK JOHN OATES LAURA WASSER BRENDON URIE BEYONCE KNOWLES When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future ... ALBERT MALTZ I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I w... EDAN LEPUCKI Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn'... PHILIP TREACY I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we ... RACHEL ZOE ANN NOCENTI JAMES TURRELL It's been an absolute rollercoaster. The things I've done, I didn't even dream of doing ... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic fe... WHITNEY CUMMINGS My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressi... ADA YONATH I want to live in a world where women feel comfortable wearing less clothes. JUSTIN DOUGLAS JONES I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have... ROBERTO CAVALLI I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more im... LAETITIA CASTA CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN AVA DUVERNAY GAIL COLLINS CHRIS ROCK LAILA ALI PARKER POSEY The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation. NATASHA LEGGERO Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the wome... ANGIE DICKINSON Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise an... MIKE HONDA CAMERON DIAZ LILY TOMLIN DREW BARRYMORE SOFIA VERGARA TAYE DIGGS With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic come... CALLIE KHOURI COLIN TREVORROW JESSICA VALENTI ARIEL LEVY MADELEINE ALBRIGHT PENELOPE CRUZ KIM KARDASHIAN CARLI LLOYD With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' the... RIAN JOHNSON KATHERINE DUNN DAVID GUTERSON WARWICK DAVIS I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We di... JOHN SAYLES JACKSON KATZ RUBY ROSE KID CUDI JACK WELCH MARIE OSMOND MAYA ANGELOU
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GAIL CARRIGER GAIL TSUKIYAMA GAIL TSUKIYAMA GAIL TSUKIYAMA I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing t... GAIL SIMMONS I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv... GAIL SIMMONS I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I... GAIL SIMMONS First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in bu... GAIL SIMMONS Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together. GAIL SIMMONS There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that though... GAIL SIMMONS A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finis... GAIL SIMMONS I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'To... GAIL SIMMONS I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars... GAIL SIMMONS Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food... GAIL SIMMONS You don't get second chances in the real world. GAIL SIMMONS I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. Fo... GAIL SIMMONS Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. GAIL SIMMONS Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors sh... GAIL SIMMONS I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that... GAIL SIMMONS I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts. GAIL SIMMONS Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night. GAIL SIMMONS I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have... GAIL SIMMONS It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, b... GAIL SIMMONS I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY I do tend to overdo everything. GAIL PORTER You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go ... GAIL PORTER I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't. GAIL PORTER I read everything and anything. I love books. GAIL PORTER Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. GAIL PORTER I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea... GAIL PORTER My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. GAIL PORTER I don't believe in God. GAIL PORTER The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and misera... GAIL PORTER Every day I do something that freaks me out. GAIL PORTER I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your ear... GAIL PORTER I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop... GAIL PORTER I try to cope with everything through humor. GAIL PORTER People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel. GAIL PORTER Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong. GAIL PORTER Scotland is the best place in the whole world. GAIL PORTER I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing. GAIL PORTER So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really... GAIL PORTER GAIL PARENT GAIL PARENT GAIL PARENT I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to d... GAIL O'GRADY The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.' GAIL O'GRADY GAIL GODWIN GAIL GODWIN GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS GAIL DEVERS I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Paras... GAIL CARRIGER As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores... GAIL CARRIGER Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunc... GAIL CARRIGER My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca. GAIL CARRIGER I pretty much will do anything for a laugh. GAIL CARRIGER At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t... GAIL CARRIGER To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I l... GAIL CARRIGER I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'... GAIL CARRIGER I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there does... GAIL CARRIGER Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell... GAIL CARRIGER As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific... GAIL CARRIGER I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and ... GAIL CARRIGER I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. ... GAIL CARRIGER Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to ... GAIL CARRIGER Smoke machines are the best! GAIL CARRIGER I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. ... GAIL CARRIGER GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL HAMILTON GAIL TSUKIYAMA GAIL HAMILTON GAIL GODWIN GAIL GODWIN GAIL PARENT GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL DEVERS GAIL GODWIN GAIL PARENT GAIL DEVERS I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL DEVERS I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY GAIL SHEEHY GAIL KELLY Patience is the secret to good food. GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of... GAIL SIMMONS GAIL SHEEHY I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha... GAIL BLANKE GAIL GODWIN GAIL SHEEHY
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protes... 
In a lot of cases, makeup is a fantastic help, and that's why women love makeup in general. It&#... 
It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hai... 
It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off... 
Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contr... 
I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high sc... 
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision tha... 
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's no... 
There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want t... 
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement agains... 
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how m... 
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. 
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they... 
The wholesome is definitely intentional and drilled into me. I mean, we weren't allowed to pierc... 
I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolsid... 
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in wome... 
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. 
It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn&... 
I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again ... 
In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and perso... 
What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so o... 
It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accen... 
If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... 
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonde... 
One of the favorite things I've learned about Michigan State is that they set up a 'Women... 
I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie. 
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to chang... 
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also abou... 
I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of ... 
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and i... 
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When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women w... 
There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually... 
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, a... 
You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, ... 
I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the r... 
There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas,... 
I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women th... 
When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn... 
You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian... 
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There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom... 
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill... 
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Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day. 
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I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets. 
I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into... 
I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and ... 
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I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing... 
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they... 
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I d... 
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica... 
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. 
I dare to do things - that's how I survive. 
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Laughter made you live better and longer. 
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. 
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