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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it. "

" 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. "

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

" I think we should all call ourselves feminists. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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