Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“The only way some feminists were able to absorb the notion of a woman who didn’t necessarily want to marry a man… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“while the feminist movement of the 1970s was in part a “direct response to these conditions of early and pervasive marriage,” the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“feminist Sheila Cronan wrote, “Since marriage constitutes slavery for women . . . Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of ways in which women, together, change the world. And I don't mean that in a cheesy way.… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Suffragists had often staged political “pageants” in which they wore sashes emblazoned “Votes for Women.” But 1921, the year following the ratification… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Crucially, many of those radically single and late-married women were the ones who were able to devote their unmarried, nonmaternal lives to… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“And many women, whether or not they are politically active, ideologically committed feminists, or whether they have simply considered the lives of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s.… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
“we “are married, or have been, or plan to be, or suffer from not being.” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time;… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share
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