Top 34 Traister Quotes
#1. In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shirts and pack their own suitcases.
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#2. What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.
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#3. For young women, for the first time, it is as normal to be unmarried as it is to be married, even if it doesn't always feel that way.
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#4. Historically, women have pushed each other into, and supported each other within, intellectual and public realms to which men rarely extended invitations, let alone any promise of equality.
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#5. I wound up happily married because I lived in an era in which I could be happily single.
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#6. The lowest of the low-poverty countries manage to get along in the world with similar levels of single mother parenting just fine. . . . We plunge more than 1 in 5 of our nation's children into poverty because we choose to.
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#7. The truer story is that even the most intense waves of backlash have rarely fully undone the progress made previously.
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#8. For women under thirty, the likelihood of being married had become astonishingly small: Today, only around 20 percent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are wed,4 compared to the nearly 60 percent in 1960.
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#9. Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is. . . . the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced because you aren't my mom, we don't have kids together - but we do have matching tattoos.
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#10. You want women around to reflect their experiences and see a female candidate through their particular prism.
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#11. By 1996 Nora Ephron was telling a graduating class at Wellesley, Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back. ... Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you.
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#12. Marriage, historically, has been one of the best ways for men to assert, reproduce, and pass on their power, to retain their control.
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#13. Today's free women, as Gloria Steinem might say, are reshaping the world once again, creating space for themselves and, in turn, for the independent women who will come after them. This is the epoch of the single women, made possible by the single women who preceded it.
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#14. For most Americans, work is the center of life, not because they yearn for it to be, but because it has to be. Beneath
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#15. Anyone who lived through the 1960s should have known that the younger generation wins.
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#16. Some are sad to not yet have found mates, like Elliott Holt, a forty-year-old novelist who told me, 'I guess I just had no idea, could never have predicted, how intense the loneliness would be at this juncture of my life.
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#17. Gay marriage, inherently and ideally based on love and companionship, and not on gender-defined social and economic power, will be key to our ability to re-imagined straight marriage.
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#18. The impact of all this persistent inequity on the economic (in)stability of unmarried women is profound.
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#19. Here is the nexus of where work, gender, marriage, and money collide: Dependency.
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#20. I think some men love the idea of a strong independent woman but they don't want to marry a strong independent woman,
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#21. If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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#22. We have no good blueprint for how to integrate the contemporary intimacies of female friendship and of marriage into one life.
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#23. Always choose yourself first. Women are very socialized to choose other people. If you put yourself first, it's this incredible path you can forge for yourself.
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#24. For young women and men who had never seen blatant misogyny before, who had never heard a woman called a "cunt" or seen the size of a senator's thighs referred to on a T-shirt, these in-your-face examples of gender-based resistance to Hillary were eye-opening.
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#25. As we gather here today," Clinton said, "the fiftieth woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast fifty women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House.
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#27. But, mostly, I didn't pursue people I wasn't crazy about because I was busy doing things that I enjoyed more than being with men I wasn't crazy about.
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#28. Other colonies began to recognize that giving land to women undermined their dependent role
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#29. In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success.
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#30. Harriet Tubman: I could have saved thousands - if only I'd been able to convince them they were slaves.
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#31. Working-class and poor women are also living outside of marriage, at even higher rates than their more privileged peers. When it comes to unmarried women and money, the unprecedented economic opportunity enjoyed by a few is a small fraction of a far more complicated story.
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#32. The consumerist cycle both depended on and strengthened capitalism, and thus worked to allay other postwar anxieties about nuclear attack and Communism, both of which had become linked to fears about the power of women's sexuality run amok.
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#33. The realization that a bad marriage might be bad enough to cause a painful split provided ammunition to those women who preferred to abstain from marriage than to enter a flawed one. What
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#34. The solution, she advises, is, "when you meet a woman who is intimidatingly witty, stylish, beautiful, and professionally accomplished, befriend her. Surrounding yourself with the best people doesn't make you look worse by comparison. It makes you look better." Marital
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