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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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