Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence. — Rebecca Traister Feminism Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“the recognition that Americans’ rights should neither be circumscribed nor made more expansive based simply on whether they were wed.” — Rebecca Traister Psychology Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years. — 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 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton had to propose to Hillary Rodham several times before she agreed to marry him and move to Arkansas. — 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… — Rebecca Traister Character Copy Share Image
Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often… — Rebecca Traister African american Copy Share Image
“In 1969, University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon wrote that “the institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation… — Rebecca Traister Marriage Copy Share Image
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on… — Rebecca Traister Commencement speech Copy Share Image
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it… — Rebecca Traister Generation 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 Elections Copy Share Image
My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I… — Rebecca Traister Adult life 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 Experience Copy Share Image
In 2008, I started the election season as a critic of Hillary Clinton, a fan of Barack Obama, and a supporter of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain,… — Rebecca Traister Education Copy Share Image
“When we meet other women who seem happier, more successful, and more confident than we are, it's all too easy to hate… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Roseanne was a huge groundbreaking comedian. Margaret Cho. Ellen DeGeneres, and then on 'Saturday Night Live,' the era of Tina Fey and… — Rebecca Traister Awareness Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr… — Rebecca Traister Acting Copy Share Image
“But postmortems offering rational explanations for how a pussy-grabbing goblin managed to gain the White House over an experienced woman have mostly… — Rebecca Traister Culture 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 Civil war Copy Share Image
Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree,… — Rebecca Traister Law 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
For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady… — Rebecca Traister Communication Copy Share Image
When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they're hurting the most are not the economically… — Rebecca Traister Hate Copy Share Image
When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that… — 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
The contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offered such a bright and bracing contrast to all those professional wrestlers emerging from… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
White people loved 'The Cosby Show,' especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well - written,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the… — 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of friends. And then there's… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loathing, jeering derision and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been… — Rebecca Traister Age 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 Abolition Copy Share Image
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