After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and… — Rebecca Traister Black women 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
“And many women, whether or not they are politically active, ideologically committed feminists, or whether they have simply considered the lives of… — Rebecca Traister Feminism Copy Share Image
“Crucially, many of those radically single and late-married women were the ones who were able to devote their unmarried, nonmaternal lives to… — Rebecca Traister Feminism 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 Bard Copy Share Image
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 1970, the average woman had her first child at 21.4; by 2012, it was almost 26, an age by which many… — Rebecca Traister Age Copy Share Image
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 Career Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr… — Rebecca Traister Acting Copy Share Image
Roseanne was a huge groundbreaking comedian. Margaret Cho. Ellen DeGeneres, and then on 'Saturday Night Live,' the era of Tina Fey and… — Rebecca Traister Awareness Copy Share Image
In 2008, Clinton and Obama were similar politicians. Obama was definitely advertised as the more progressive candidate, and that's part of why… — Rebecca Traister People Copy Share Image
'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in… — Rebecca Traister Book 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 Life Copy Share Image
A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without… — 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 Big impact Copy Share Image
“What was so disruptive about Steinem, and other women who were living like her, whether or not they had men on their… — Rebecca Traister Heart Copy Share Image
One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about Bill Cosby is that he made… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's messages, but he is a masterful orator.… — Rebecca Traister Administration 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 Feminism 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 Life 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 Age 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 Abolition 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 Birth Copy Share Image
Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail… — Rebecca Traister Equality Copy Share Image
Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of… — Rebecca Traister Feminism Copy Share Image
