Emily Matchar Quotes

#1. In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.

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#2. Many men no longer want to be identified just by their jobs, said Bengt Westerberg, the country's former deputy prime minister.

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#3. There's no evidence that women are actually happier at home. In fact numerous studies show that working moms are happier and more fulfilled than stay-at-home moms.

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#4. Does the burden of "do it yourself" fall harder on women than men?

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#5. If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.

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#6. If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the "dirty work" of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.

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#7. A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement.

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#8. [Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we've stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

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#9. Her conclusion: "You just have to follow your own heart" when it comes to medical decision-making.

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#10. Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?

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#11. Jean Railla puts it even more bluntly: Workplaces are still very sexist
it's hard to be a woman in the workplace.

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#12. But she realized that modern homemaking could be creatively fulfilling in a way she'd never imagined. Unlike previous generations of housewives, who Erika imagines were bored and dissatisfied, Erika says women her age treat the duties of the home as outlets for their creativity.

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#13. American culture at large has failed working mothers.

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#14. For women with children, the new handmade economy offers the tantalizing possibility of flexible, part-time, at home work
the "egg money" of the twenty-first century.

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#15. It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

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#16. Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances
ambitious, educated women who might have turned up their noses at anything domestic had they been born a generation earlier
have blogs dedicated to cupcakes or knitting or vintage home decor.

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#17. I was in need of some community," she said. "I think that's the reason so many women bloggers start blogging, just to find someone out there who knows what they're going through.

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