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February 22, 2026 / 10:23 AM EST
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Norah O'Donnell has interviewed a lot of people in her long career, including some of the most important women of our time, such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Kamala Harris, activist Malala Yousafzai, singer Dolly Parton, and Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. But when it came to women in history, she was shocked by how much she didn't know."I went to a good, big, public high school in Texas; I went to Georgetown University," she said. "And yet, my own understanding of women's contribution to American history has been limited."Asked her reaction to things she had not known, O'Donnell replied, "You know that emoji that has the, like, head exploding? 🤯 It was sort of like that at every turn."
