Janet Kenny has it exactly right: "Sanity and depth" just about sums up Gail's work. What those words imply, of course, is the capacity to think opposites at the same time without flinching or forcibly shutting one eye, and the grace to admit that there may be no clean resolution, and the degree of detachment to live with that, and even laugh at such a predicament. I think Gail is a national treasure, and yes, far better than the more famous satirists of the '20s, of either sex.
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