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> [The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reason that it's basically the only way to afford a family life in the 21st-century…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/the-research-points-pretty-clearly-to-the-rise-of-companionate/)

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## More by Stephen Marche

> [When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/when-you-ask-single-men-in-their-20s-do-you-want-children-they-want/)

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> [Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/men-are-not-taking-women-s-job-which-are-good-jobs-being-a-nurse-is/)

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> [ The division \[between how much housework men and women do\] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/the-division-between-how-much-housework-men-and-women-do-is-declining/)

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> [When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/when-you-look-at-the-biggest-study-of-the-american-dream-the-number/)

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> [Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/men-s-gender-problems-cause-them-a-lot-of-suffering-there-is-a/)

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> [Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/actually-the-family-is-still-the-core-social-unit-culturally/)

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> [Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/look-at-the-iliad-there-s-all-this-stuff-about-men-loving-children/)

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> [Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/marriage-is-an-an-inherently-contradictory-state-it-involves-the/)

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> [Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/only-idiots-or-snobs-ever-really-thought-less-of-genre-books-of/)

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> [I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/i-cannot-imagine-why-a-woman-would-ever-call-herself-anything-but-a/)

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> [When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in the middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/when-you-look-at-how-men-and-women-are-living-together-there-are-two/)

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> [I don't really mind it when Trudeau calls himself a feminist because, you know, he did the half-female cabinet; that's something to be proud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/i-don-t-really-mind-it-when-trudeau-calls-himself-a-feminist-because/)

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> [We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/we-re-in-trump-times-we-re-in-the-time-this-misogynist-hate-clown-is/)

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> [The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/the-wilderness-within-us-is-actually-the-best-part-of-us/)

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> [One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/one-thing-you-can-say-about-trump-is-that-he-is-not-a-traditional/)

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