Books By Gail Collins
No Stopping Us Now - 2010 - Bvtn.Lib 303.262 COL
p033 Sarah Josepha Hale Godey's Lady's Book p73 retired age 89
p054 Tabitha Moffat Brown founder Tualatin Academy in 1849, which became Pacific University in 1854
p057 Lydia Maria Child Looking Towards Sunset
p064 Sylvester Graham inspired graham cracker
p065 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher live to 80yo, subtracting sins
- p066 .. scandal with friend's wife Elizabeth Tilton
p068 Louisa May Alcott calomel mercury poisoning, died age 55
p072 NY board of health 1870: all tested hair treatments contained lead or nitrate of silver , toxicity 3=serious injury
p076 Susan B. Anthony collapses in 1895, reporter told "50,000 words if still living, no limit if dead"
- p080 late 1800s doctors thought sex could be fatal for older women
p080 Forbes Winslow worried childless menopause led to immodest sexual appetites, said females in their 20s are shriveled and wrinkled with age
p081 53yo Francis Willard writes A Wheel Within a Wheel - How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
p083 Jane Addams "postponement of old age", Nobel Peace Prize 1931
p084 Elizabeth Cady StantonNational American Women Suffrage Association
p093 Harriet Tubman Union army scout, suffrage, military funeral age 90
p095 Mexican onyx
p101 Mary Harris - Mother Jones 1900 labor organizer
p106 Jeannette Rankin first congresswoman (Montana), opposed WW1
p143 rp365 Those Wonderful Women in their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War II Sally Keil 1990
- p144 During WW2, four women pilots grounded by weather in Georgia arrested for wearing pants
p145 Mary Church Terrell "I never intend to get old"
- p147 Jane Addams told ambulance was late, "That's all right, for that will give me time to finish the book I'm reading ]]
- p149 Eleanor Roosevelt visited slums, jails. FDR was told his wife was "in prison"; retorted "I'm not surprised, but what for?"
- p157 women recruited for war work up to age 79
- p162 American law stripped native-born women of citizenship of they married Chinese immigrants.
p170 FDR was with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd when he died
p171 Universal Declaration of Human Rights "all men" amended to "all human beings"
p176 cortisone for arthritis, ad claimed "crippled patients could dance again"
p185 Margaret Chase Smith Maine Congress representative, 1940 re-election a pretty heavy year
- p188 inspired teenager Hillary Rodham
- p190 Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950s "By now, you ought to know me well enough to know I like young men"
p191 Youngest first ladies Jacqueline Kennedy 31yo Julia Tyler 24yoFrancis Cleveland 21yo
- p192 Number of 45yo+ working women doubled between 1947 and 1962
- the best 20 years of a woman's life are between age 28 and 30
- p193 smoking started to decline in the 1960s
p196 Dagmar Wilson Women Strike for Peace
summoned by House Un-American Activities Committee, filled room with flowers and babies
- headline "Peace March Gals Make Red Hunters Look Silly"
p196 Margaret Chase Smith denounces Joe McCarthy
p218 Rosalind Russell A Majority of One 2010 DVD no local libraries
- p230 Displaced homemaker == divorced / widowed
p230 OWL Older Women's League
- p235 2000 American women married to men under 25
- p236 1977 LA Times: Being a mother to your parents (and your children)
p271 River Wild (1994 movie) BINGE MERYL 2021 Brookwood
- p273 cruise ships send certain people over the edge
p274 Abigail Van Buren at 75 planned to work forever, column to daughter Jeanne 9 years later, Alzheimers, died age 94
p304 grandmothers caring for grandchildren -> 55% greater risk of heart disease, perhaps due to stress
- p305 20% elderly black women have Methuselah gene, younger looking skin, 10% for Caucasian women
p305 Steven Austad seventy is the new 50
- 70s and 80s now "active adults"
- p306 18% of 70 to 74yo women have jobs, working because they enjoy it
- p311 Age 46: Obama a young man on the rise, Hillary supporters at same age were "white older women"
p313 78 yo Nancy Pelosi pushed to retire; fought Trump's border wall, complaints stopped
- p315 John O'Connor (wife of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) diagnosed with Alzheimers's age ~70 1990ish, Sandra retired to care for him, but he deteriorated too fast
p322 age 71: Robert Downey played Iron Man superhero, Marisa Tomei and Diane Lane played mothers of superheros at same age
p323 Debora SparAging and My Beauty Dilemma 2016 NYT
p324 Sally Field 1946 was Tom Hanks 1956 love interest in Punchline(1998) and his mom in Forrest Gump(1994)
p324 Still Doing It
p325 Dr. JoAnn Manson hormone treatments for menopausal symptoms 2021 NEMJ
- Hormone therapy isn't all good or all bad
- p327 2050 US elderly (over 65 says Census Bureau) population ill more than double to 80 million, mostly boomers between 2010 and 2030
- p327 2 million nonagenarians after 2010, 2/3 women
p328 Betty White lived to 99.96yo, "positive thinking, vodka, and hot dogs"
p329 Kendal-on-Hudson retirement community singles 8:1 women to men
p330 spinal stenosis
p331 Anna Quindlen Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake 2012 wccls
p332 Nora Ephron 1941-2012 leukemia . I Feel Bad About My Neck 2006 Bvtlib 814.54 EPH
- "Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth"
husband Nick Pileggi b1933
p333 Vivian Gornick walks New York streets, paying attention.
- "Energy -- coarse and rich -- began to swell inside the cavity of my chest. Time quickened, the air glowed, the colors of the day grew vivid; my mouth felt fresh. A surprising tenderness pressed against my heart with such strength it seemed very nearly like joy; and with unexpected sharpness I became alert not to the meaning but the astonishment of human existence."