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Rebecca Traister is a celebrated journalist and author renowned for her incisive commentary on women's rights and feminism. Born in 1975, she has penned influential works such as "All the Single Ladies" and "Good and Mad," where she explores the intersections of gender, power, and social movements. Traister's insightful narratives draw from her extensive experience as a writer for major publications, including New York Magazine and The New Republic. Her voice remains a vital force in contemporary discussions about women's roles in society, inspiring readers to engage with the complexities of feminism today.
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"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."
Rebecca Traister"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."
Rebecca Traister"The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality."
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"Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail and what it means to have a full female life. Also, their presence will force the government to support a population of independent women more capably."
Rebecca Traister"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."
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"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."
Rebecca Traister"The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping birth rate."
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"By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America."
Rebecca Traister"'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."
Rebecca Traister"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.'"
Rebecca Traister"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."
Rebecca Traister"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."
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"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."
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