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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. "

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" 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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" I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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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Over

Women

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

" Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 think we should all call ourselves feminists. "