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> [“More sharply, Steinem argued that marriage rendered women “half people,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/more-sharply-steinem-argued-that-marriage-rendered-women-half-people/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

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## More by Rebecca Traister

> [“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/the-expectations-of-republican-motherhood-in-which-women-s/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/andrea-dworkin-famously-commented-that-marriage-as-an-institution/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/changing-professional-expectations-and-technological-tools-have/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/i-d-spent-my-whole-adult-life-considering-myself-an-independent/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/the-lack-of-marriage-is-being-blamed-for-almost-every-social-ill/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/friedan-also-didn-t-consider-the-population-of-american-women-who/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/after-emancipation-black-women-married-earlier-and-more-often-because/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/throughout-america-s-history-the-start-of-adult-life-for-women/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/in-his-1873-sex-in-education-or-a-fair-chance-for-the-girls-harvard/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/by-the-time-clinton-graduated-from-yale-law-school-many-people/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/in-2013-according-to-the-bureau-of-labor-statistics-around-64-percent/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/since-the-late-19th-century-the-median-age-of-first-marriage-for/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [“we “are married, or have been, or plan to be, or suffer from not being.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/we-are-married-or-have-been-or-plan-to-be-or-suffer-from-not-being/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/there-is-a-kind-of-woman-who-is-economically-powerful-professionally/)

[Rebecca Traister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-traister/)

> [One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-traister/one-of-the-favorite-conservative-themes-is-that-the-cure-for-poverty/)

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