Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Pop culture is like our subconscious.
I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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.
The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
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.
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
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.
In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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.
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.