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

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" Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men. "

" You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists. "

" Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are. "

" The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick. "

" 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. "

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

" Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers. "

" Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide. "

" There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are. "

" 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. "

" Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men. "

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

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

" Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods. "

" Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal. "

" Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. "

" On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them. "

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

" The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards. "

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

" Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children. "

" One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. "

" We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families. "

" 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. "

" Pop culture is like our subconscious. "

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

" NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. "