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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting. "

" I think we should all call ourselves feminists. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way. "

" The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive. "

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

" Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order. "