Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Reid Gibbs is an American essayist and managing editor for Time magazine, a best-selling author and commentator on politics and values in the United States. She is the co-author with Michael Duffy of The New York Times Bestsellers The Preacher and the Presidents; Billy Graham in the White Houseand The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.