She then served as a foreign correspondent for Collier's magazine in Japan, China, the Soviet Union, and other countries.

She used her acerbic, witty, and disposed style to cover topics such as international politics or profiling a simple civil servant she met.

[1] Although she wrote quite frequently on political issues, Moats did not like to be hemmed in by choosing between Democrat and Republican.

Even in her last column she criticized the feminists of her country for failing to rally behind U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, who had voted against the appointment of John Tower as secretary of defense.

The author of a book entitled No Nice Girl Swears was stubborn, argumentative, and uncompromisingly honest.