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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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