“ The imagined connection between social agitation and an unmarried state was so firm that even married activists got tarred as single, frigid, or unmarriageable Rebecca Traister
“ The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality. Rebecca Traister
“ The task— especially for the newly awakened, the newly angry, especially for the white women, for whom incentives to renounce their rage will be highest in coming years—is to keep going, to not turn b… Rebecca Traister
“ Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives. Rebecca Traister
“ I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectati… Rebecca Traister
“ When somebody manages to project a lot of strength and a lot of warmth, we say they're charismatic and magnetic, we want to be with that person, we want to be that person,' said Neffinger. Rebecca Traister
“ The expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their husbands. Rebecca Traister
“ As the second decade of the twenty-first century has worn on, politicians of all stripes, aware of the political power of the unmarried woman yet seemingly incapable of understanding female life outsi… Rebecca Traister
“ Of course, some people's decadence is other people's liberation; the exhaustion with child-bearing a child-rearing that Douthat finds so troubling is the weariness of women who've borne the children a… Rebecca Traister
“ Clinton’s left critics would often comment that she’d lucked out in her draw of opponents, that she’d won—and then blown—a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to run against such a cartoonishly awful man.… Rebecca Traister
“ The violence done by the more powerful entity—the police and the state—to the less powerful entity is often so normalized, so banal, so expected as to not even be discernible, not even visible. But an… Rebecca Traister
“ The very fact that she had carefully established close relationships with big donors and garnered the support of bigwigs made her part of a political elite and vulnerable to the anti-establishment rhe… Rebecca Traister
“ The relevance of her single status was how it distinguished her from established expectations of femininity. Hill had no husband to vouch for her virtue, no children to affirm her worth, as women’s wo… Rebecca Traister
“ In the late 1860s, Myra Bradwell petitioned for a law license and argued that the 14th Amendment protected her right to practice. The Illinois Supreme Court rejected her petition, ruling that because… Rebecca Traister
“ In figuring out how a woman might win within a system that had not been designed with her in mind, Clinton had set herself up to lose. Rebecca Traister
“ Yes, in a bad economy, grown children live with their parents. However, that’s not a new familial configuration; historically and across classes, adult children have very often lived with their parent… Rebecca Traister
“ In a society that has built an enormously lavish wedding industry, and in which women are far more likely to forego marriage than ever before, it’s awfully easy to see marriage as the elusive solution… Rebecca Traister
“ Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail and what it means to have a full female life. Also, their presence wi… Rebecca Traister
