Hanna Rosin Quotes

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you ... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men ... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.