- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how few movies there are in the world about women and their work? I mean, it's like 'Silkwood' and 'Erin Brokovich.' There are exceptions, but they are so exceptional.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,' or 'I am rejecting marriage.'
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and I identified as single.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
- Confining
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they're hurting the most are not the economically powerful ones. They're not Sandra Fluke. They're not Lena Dunham, who conservatives hate more than anybody. They're hurting low-earning single mothers.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the epic allusions contribute to the difficulty Clinton has long had in coming across as, simply, a human being. She is uneasy with the press and ungainly on the stump. Catching a glimpse of the 'real' her often entails spying something out of the corner of your eye, in a moment when she's not trying to be, or to sell, 'Hillary Clinton.'
- Commencement
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had thought a lot about unmarried life during my years as an unmarried woman - which was all during my 20s and into my 30s. I was someone who didn't have a ton of relationships as a single person - and so I had a sharp identification with singlehood.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of friends. And then there's 'Friends,' and that's called the groundbreaking show about unmarried adults living in New York!
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.
- American Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.
- Credit Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own loans. Basically, the husband's professional, social, and economic identity covered the individual identity of the wife.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands' identities.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectations for raising children leaves many women and men feeling as if their days are a blur of carpools and play-groups and tutors.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be many benefits to working outside the home for wages, but it's certainly not been done as an act of liberation. It's an act of economic necessity and has been since the beginning of time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a special place in Hell for people who didn't support Sarah Palin. Do you know what I mean? It's ridiculous. And there is certainly not a special place in Hell for women who don't support Hillary Clinton.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology.
- Big Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2008, Clinton and Obama were similar politicians. Obama was definitely advertised as the more progressive candidate, and that's part of why more progressive people - including women - went for him.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020