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" 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. "

Hanna Rosin

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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