Rebecca Traister

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

— Rebecca Traister

The contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offered such a bright and bracing contrast to all those professional wrestlers emerging from…

— Rebecca Traister

There may be many benefits to working outside the home for wages, but it's certainly not been done as an act of…

— Rebecca Traister

Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it…

— Rebecca Traister

In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of…

— Rebecca Traister

“More sharply, Steinem argued that marriage rendered women “half people,”

— Rebecca Traister

More women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. When will we stop punishing them for it?

— Rebecca Traister

“In 1993, Bill Clinton appointed Joycelyn Elders, an outspoken advocate of humane drug laws and abortion rights, as Surgeon General of the…

— Rebecca Traister

Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail…

— Rebecca Traister

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing…

— Rebecca Traister

I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the…

— Rebecca Traister

“Friedan did not include black women in her vision. Black”

— Rebecca Traister

Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the country we live in…

— Rebecca Traister

Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often…

— Rebecca Traister

My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to…

— Rebecca Traister

Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career…

— Rebecca Traister

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

“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

“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

Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of…

— Rebecca Traister

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for…

— Rebecca Traister

“But there was no consideration that those single incomes were a result as much as a cause,”

— Rebecca Traister

“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no…

— Rebecca Traister

In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.

— Rebecca Traister

“while the feminist movement of the 1970s was in part a “direct response to these conditions of early and pervasive marriage,” the…

— Rebecca Traister