Hanna Rosin Quotes
-
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
-
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
-
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.
-
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
-
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.
-
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
-
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.
-
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
-
The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
-
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.
-
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
-
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
-
Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
-
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.
-
Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
-
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 most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
-
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 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.
-
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.
-
You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
-
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.