Hanna Rosin Quotes

"To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide."

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

"Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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