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" 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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" 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. "

" The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip. "

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

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

" I think we should all call ourselves feminists. "

" 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. "

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

" The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it. "

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

" There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Pop culture is like our subconscious. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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