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> [“Being a stay-at-home mom to one child, a baby, when you’re a mom of one is not really a full-time job,” she says sotto voce, as if revealing a dirty secret. “You’ve got a lot of other time. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/being-a-stay-at-home-mom-to-one-child-a-baby-when-you-re-a-mom-of-one/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

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## More by Emily Matchar

> [“For women with children, the new handmade economy offers the tantalizing possibility of flexible, part-time, at home work--the "egg money" of the twenty-first century.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/for-women-with-children-the-new-handmade-economy-offers-the/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/a-privileging-of-individual-rights-over-group-goods-can-lead-to/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“But she realized that modern homemaking could be creatively fulfilling in a way she'd never imagined. Unlike previous generations of housewives, who Erika imagines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/but-she-realized-that-modern-homemaking-could-be-creatively/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“There’s no evidence that women are actually happier at home. In fact numerous studies show that working moms are happier and more fulfilled than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/there-s-no-evidence-that-women-are-actually-happier-at-home-in-fact/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young activists prefer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/why-is-it-we-don-t-intervene-in-the-bureaucracy-asks-chris-bobel-the/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [ “\[Judith Warner:\] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/judith-warner-our-neurotic-quest-to-perfect-the-mechanics-of/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances--ambitious, educated women who might have turned up their noses at anything domestic had they been born a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/dozens-of-my-own-friends-and-acquaintances-ambitious-educated-women/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“Does the burden of “do it yourself” fall harder on women than men?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/does-the-burden-of-do-it-yourself-fall-harder-on-women-than-men/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very disturbed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/golden-sees-parental-uninterest-in-collective-solutions-as-part-of-a/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [American culture at large has failed working mothers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/american-culture-at-large-has-failed-working-mothers/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“Choosing a simpler life does not offer me a paycheck, a pat on the back from the parents who paid for a “wasted” education,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/choosing-a-simpler-life-does-not-offer-me-a-paycheck-a-pat-on-the/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“I was in need of some community," she said. "I think that's the reason so many women bloggers start blogging, just to find someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/i-was-in-need-of-some-community-she-said-i-think-that-s-the-reason-so/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/if-women-cut-back-on-their-ambitions-en-masse-institutional-change/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“My grandfather so throughly considered cooking to be "women's work" that he wouldn't even enter the kitchen to get his own glass of water.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/my-grandfather-so-throughly-considered-cooking-to-be-women-s-work/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

> [“Sweden had paternity-leave policies in place for years but found that few men were taking advantage of the benefit. While women felt comfortable taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-matchar/sweden-had-paternity-leave-policies-in-place-for-years-but-found-that/)

[Emily Matchar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-matchar/)

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