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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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I think we should all call ourselves feminists. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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