by Gail Collins
365 “The cost of women”: O’Brien, “Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms?”
366 Lisa Belkin, writing about: Belkin, “Who’s Cuddly Now?”
366 slightly over half of adult: Kate Zernike, “Why Are There So Many Single Americans?” New York Times, January 21, 2007.
366 The percentage of women ages: “We the People,” U.S. Census Bureau.
366 Of the fifty thousand: Coontz, Marriage, 270.
367 “I can’t count”: Stepp, Unhooked, 249.
367 But for the most part: Edin and Kefalas, Promises I Can Keep, 207.
367 In the late 1990s: This section is based on information in Promises I Can Keep by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas.
367 But it was not all that great: Coontz, The Way We Really Are, 150.
368 In the spring of 1998: Stepp, Unhooked.
370 A 16-year-old boy: Alex Kuczynski, “She’s Got to Be a Macho Girl,” New York Times, November 3, 2002.
370 “I stopped wearing panty hose”: Michelle Obama, interviewed on The View, June 18, 2008.
371 “I think people”: Donna St. George, “U.S. Deaths in Iraq Mark Increased Presence,” Washington Post, December 31, 2006.
372 Studies of female veterans: Sara Corbett, “The Women’s War,” New York Times Magazine, March 18, 2007; “Sexual Assault in Military ‘Jaw-Dropping,’ Lawmaker Says,” CNN.com, July 31, 2008.
372 “Frankly, one of the most dangerous”: Ibid.
373 Lynch’s best friend in the army: The story of Lori Piestewa is based on information from “A Wrong Turn in the Desert” by Osha Gray Davidson, Rolling Stone, May 27, 2004.
15. HILLARY AND SARAH… AND TAHITA
Interviews: Muriel Fox, Edna Kleimeyer, Gerald McBeath, George McGovern, Himilce Novas, Michelle Obama.
Unless otherwise noted, this chapter is based on my reporting as a columnist for the New York Times.
376 “speaking more forcefully”: Patrick Tyler, “Hillary Clinton, in China, Details Abuse of Women,” New York Times, September 6, 1995.
379 Gloria Steinem asked, in the New York Times: “Women Are Never Front-Runners,” New York Times, January 8, 2008.
379 In March 2008, at a Women: Karen Breslau, “Work Harder, Prove Yourself,” newsweek.com, August 29, 2008.
380 Susan Faludi suggested: Susan Faludi, “The Fight Stuff,” New York Times, May 9, 2008.
381 “Women like her most”: Julia Baird, “From Seneca Falls to… Sarah Palin?” Newsweek, September 22, 2008.
382 But after her smashing: Ibid.
382 people sometimes called themselves: Lisa Miller and Amanda Coyne, “A Visit to Palin’s Church,” Newsweek, September 2, 2008.
383 Palin remembered growing up: Breslau, “Work Harder, Prove Yourself.”
383 (When asked during her gubernatorial): Rebecca Johnson, “Altered States,” Vogue, February 1, 2008.
383 She once called that victory: S. J. Komarnitsky, “New Mayor, Sharp Knife,” Anchorage Daily News, October 3, 1996.
383 Her sister said the only goal: Monica Davey, “Little-Noticed College Student to Star Politician,” New York Times, October 24, 2008.
383 “The protein her family”: Johnson, “Altered States.”
384 “None of that ‘Sarah Barracuda’ ”: Davey, “Little-Noticed College Student to Star Politician.”
384 While she was mayor: Evan Thomas and Karen Breslau, “McCain’s Mrs. Right,” Newsweek, September 8, 2008.
384 “I mean, how cool”: Amanda M. Fairbanks, “Young, Republican, and Inspired by Palin,” New York Times, October 29, 2008.
385 In a roundup of national: Jodi Kantor and Rachel Swarns, “A New Twist in the Debate on Mothers,” New York Times, September 2, 2008.
385 “People who don’t have children”: Ibid.
385 When people wondered how: Karen Breslau, “An Apostle of Alaska,” Newsweek, September 15, 2008.
386 Obama, who sent out: Maria Gavrilovic, “It’s Stand-Up Comedy Time for Obama,” CBS.com, September 8, 2008.
386 When asked about how: Michael Luo, “Working Mother Questions ‘Irrelevant,’ Palin Says,” New York Times, September 13, 2008.
386 Her husband wrote about the strain: Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, 340.
388 During the vice presidential campaign: James Grimaldi and Karl Vick, “Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home,” Washington Post, September 9, 2008.
388 Swift got into trouble: Gail Collins, “The Mommy Track Derails,” New York Times, January 11, 2000; “The Year of the Stork,” New York Times, May 11, 2001.
389 “The feeling that”: Jane Swift, “In Her Own Words,” Boston Magazine, January 2003.
389 (A reporter who followed her around): Thomas and Breslau, “McCain’s Mrs. Right.”
389 “She is Phyllis”: Gloria Steinem, “Palin: Wrong Woman, Wrong Message,” Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2008.
389 Saturday Night Live aired: September 27, 2008.
390 When she was unable: Saturday Night Live, Jon Meacham, “The Palin Problem,” Newsweek, October 13, 2008.
390 Palin, back in Alaska: William Yardley and Michael Cooper, “Palin Calls Criticism by McCain Aides ‘Cruel and Mean-Spirited,’ ” New York Times, November 7, 2008.
391 Palin wound up the only: Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta, “Perceptions of Palin Grow Increasingly Negative,” Washington Post, October 25, 2008.
392 “They bear us children”: Mark Leibovich, “Among Rock-Ribbed Fans of Palin, Dudes Rule,” New York Times, October 19, 2008.
392 Meanwhile, Tahita Jenkins: Jeremy Olshan, “Skirt the Issue,” New York Post, May 31, 2007.
EPILOGUE
Unless otherwise noted, all the information in the epilogue is taken from interviews.
394 “In those first days”: Toobin, The Nine, 253.
394 He was moved into an assisted-living: “Son: O’Connor Not Jealous of Husband’s New Relationship,” Associated Press on CNN.com, November 13, 2007.
401 In the panic that ensued: Michael Barbaro, “A Makeover of a Romance,” New York Times, February 9, 2006.
402 Her delight at the turnaround: Kunin, Living a Political Life, 163.
404 In her autobiography: Mankiller, Mankiller, 246.
404 “The bride wore”: Neil MacFarquhar, “Public Lives: A Feminist Takes the Vows,” New York Times, September 6, 2000.
405 “I don’t know if”: Wolfgang Saxon, “Martha Griffiths, 91, Dies,” New York Times, April 25, 2003.
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