“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“we “are married, or have been, or plan to be, or suffer from not being.” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“More sharply, Steinem argued that marriage rendered women “half people,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have.… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern… — Rebecca Traister 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 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 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 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
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
“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
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all… — 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
“While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different.… — 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
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“the weird possibility of marriage loomed. It loomed, in part, because there weren’t very many appealing models of what other kinds of… — 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
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“some of the Bard’s feistiest and most loquacious heroines, including Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, ceased to have any lines after… — 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
Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent. — Rebecca Traister 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 Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder… — 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 Image
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — 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 had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
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 Image
