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

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" I think we should all call ourselves feminists. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I deeply believe that men and women need each other. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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