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All Quotes by author - Hanna Rosin

" Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries. "

" As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more. "

" Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. "

" Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy. "

" Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces. "

" Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental. "

" Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming. "

" Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard. "

" Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent. "

" Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others. "

" Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech. "

" Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices. "

" Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves. "

" For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects. "

" For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions. "

" For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are. "

" Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training. "

" I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.' "

" I deeply believe that men and women need each other. "

" If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe. "

" If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me. "

" If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. "

" I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. "

" I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing. "

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" In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys. "

" In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. "

" Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them. "

" I think we should all call ourselves feminists. "

" Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type. "

" Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful. "

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