Hanna Rosin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.”
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“Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.”
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“Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.”
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“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.”
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“To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.”
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“The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.”
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“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.”
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“Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.”
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“Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.”
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“We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.”
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“We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.”
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“One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.”
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“NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.”
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“I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'”
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“Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.”
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“Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.”
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“Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.”
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“Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.”
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“Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.”
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“Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.”
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“As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.”
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“I deeply believe that men and women need each other.”
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