Stephanie Coontz Quotes
In industrial countries where male privilege is still firmly entrenched - in Spain, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, for example - women are delaying marriage longer than in America, and often resisting childbearing as well. They are less likely than American women to say that marriage is a good deal.
Stephanie Coontz
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Camille Paglia
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Kate Winslet
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Natascha McElhone
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Naveen Andrews
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Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
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Cherie Blair
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Brian Johnson
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.
Jonathan Swift
In industrial countries where male privilege is still firmly entrenched - in Spain, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, for example - women are delaying marriage longer than in America, and often resisting childbearing as well. They are less likely than American women to say that marriage is a good deal.
Stephanie Coontz
