Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage. — Stephen Marche Birth Copy Share Image
Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job. — Stephen Marche Excellent Copy Share Image
You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace. — Stephen Marche Economics Copy Share Image
Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit. — Stephen Marche Black Copy Share Image
I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists. — Stephen Marche Feminism Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to. — Stephen Marche Being lied Copy Share Image
Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that. — Stephen Marche Clear Copy Share Image
When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in… — Stephen Marche American dream Copy Share Image
Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of… — Stephen Marche Children Copy Share Image
Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway. — Stephen Marche Back and forth Copy Share Image
Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and… — Stephen Marche Accelerate Copy Share Image
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart. — Stephen Marche Economic Copy Share Image
The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see… — Stephen Marche Baby Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and… — Stephen Marche Age Copy Share Image
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f -… — Stephen Marche Decline Copy Share Image
We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when… — Stephen Marche Bathroom Copy Share Image
Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's… — Stephen Marche Being yourself Copy Share Image
When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive… — Stephen Marche Asks Copy Share Image
Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay… — Stephen Marche Be a man Copy Share Image
One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even… — Stephen Marche House Copy Share Image
When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in… — Stephen Marche Class Copy Share Image
Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this… — Stephen Marche Block Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century… — Stephen Marche 18th century Copy Share Image
What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s… — Stephen Marche 80s Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what… — Stephen Marche Activist Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche Ancient Copy Share Image
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the… — Stephen Marche Alternatives Copy Share Image
As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women… — Stephen Marche Arabia Copy Share Image
The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with… — Stephen Marche Feminism Copy Share Image
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to… — Stephen Marche Behinds Copy Share Image
In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more.… — Stephen Marche America Copy Share Image
Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This… — Stephen Marche Feminism Copy Share Image
Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and… — Stephen Marche Contradictory Copy Share Image
I don't really mind it when Trudeau calls himself a feminist because, you know, he did the half-female cabinet; that's something to… — Stephen Marche Abortion Copy Share Image
We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing,… — Stephen Marche Community Copy Share Image
The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that… — Stephen Marche Division Copy Share Image
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books.… — Stephen Marche Book Copy Share Image
The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what… — Stephen Marche Beautiful Copy Share Image
To me, there's two definitions of feminism. One is that you believe that women are equal human beings; that's not really a… — Stephen Marche Believe Copy Share Image
![“One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then…” quote by Stephen Marche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c6/stephen-marche-15665_18th-century_one-paradox-is-that-pornography-follows_2096137.jpg)
![“What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at…” quote by Stephen Marche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/96e/stephen-marche-15665_80s_what-we-re-seeing-now-is-not-just-a-back_1907173.jpg)
![“The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want, which is men are doing more, but because women are doing less of it, but even then, the trend is getting towards equality.” quote by Stephen Marche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c39/stephen-marche-15665_division_the-division-between-how-much-housework_168872.jpg)
