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 Summoned by House Un-American Activities Committee, filled room with flowers and babies
- headline "Peace March Gals Make Red Hunters Look Silly"
p271 River Wild (1994 movie) BINGE MERYL 2021 Brookwood