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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

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• p271 River Wild (1994 movie) BINGE MERYL 2021 Brookwood

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