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" The place where we keep our clothes isn't always the only place where we keep our commitments. "
Stephanie Coontz
Keep
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Place
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" It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average. "
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" Usually, Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage. "
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News
" Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a result of the labor struggles and reforms of the New Deal, and it began to extend to minorities and women only after the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s. "
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" Having more education is one of the biggest predictors of women having careers. "
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" As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia. "
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" Because we live so much of our adult lives as singles, it no longer makes sense to assume that marriage is the only way people will organize their obligations and commitments. "
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" Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups. "
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" Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike. "
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" Valentine's Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more renowned, or more powerful. "
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" As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother. "
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Child
Lucky
Enough
" Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care. "
Stephanie Coontz
Detail
Care
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" In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y. "
Stephanie Coontz
Thought
Life
History
" Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence. "
Stephanie Coontz
School
Young
People
" The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex. "
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Opportunity
Women
Sex
" Historically, mass demonstrations have worked best at shifting public opinion and pressuring the powers-that-be when organizers highlighted one concrete demand: 'Bring Our Boys Home from Vietnam'; 'End Segregation Now'; 'Support Women's Right to Choose.' "
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Home
End
Best
" Donald Trump has tapped into a deep vein of racism, nativism, and misogyny. "
Stephanie Coontz
Donald Trump
Deep
Vein
" In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think that the most useful way to understand the past and make it work for you is to look at the trade-offs and contradictions that, however deeply buried, can be uncovered in every memory, good or bad. "
Stephanie Coontz
Teacher
Past
Good
" Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women. "
Stephanie Coontz
Always
Women
Social
" Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement. "
Stephanie Coontz
Entitlement
Children
Many
" Social changes always involve trade-offs. "
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Social
Always
Involve
" The origins of modern marital instability lie largely in the triumph of what many people believe to be marriage's traditional role - providing love, intimacy, fidelity, and mutual fulfillment. The truth is that for centuries, marriage was stable precisely because it was not expected to provide such benefits. "
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" Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking to master 'the art of the deal' learned the hard way that Trump held all the cards. "
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People
Looking
Art
" Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women. "
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Inequality
American
" Nostalgia is a very human trait. "
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Human
Nostalgia
" Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family. "
Stephanie Coontz
Time
Alone
Family
" Giving married women an independent legal existence did not destroy heterosexual marriage. And allowing husbands and wives to construct their marriages around reciprocal duties and negotiated roles - where a wife can choose to be the main breadwinner and a husband can stay home with the children - was an immense boon to many couples. "
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Children
Women
Wife
" There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality. "
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Made
Great
Gender
" There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain. "
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Happy
Memories
Truth
" Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them it's healthy. "
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Game
Play
Child
" It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem. "
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