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Gail Collins, Part 2: for women who have “waited” long enough

By Chris Lombardi

Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Story of American Women From 1960 to the Present, was on a book tour last week mostly to share her amazement at “that thing we did,” meaning the transformation of the role of American women. As part of the tour, Collins and interviewer Lynn Yeakel talked to a packed crowd at…

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Gail Collins: “Remember, this is cool! we did some amazing things!”

By Chris Lombardi

The Constitution Center in Philadelphia, perhaps best known in recent years as the site of President Obama’s iconic speech on race, was packed this past Monday night. The two women onstage, Lynn Yeakel and Gail Collins — Yeakel, a Drexel University professor and the woman who challenged Senator Arlen Specter in 1992, and Collins, the first female editor of The…

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Gail Collins, Part 2: for women who have “waited” long enough

Gail Collins: “Remember, this is cool! we did some amazing things!”

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