“Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choo...” — Gail Collins Quote

“Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.”

“Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.”

“This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.”

“Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.”

“For Mandarin scripts, there's software now where you can just insert the Chinese script, and it comes out all in pinyin.”