Quotes by Stephanie Coontz

"Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests."

"Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other."

"Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting."

"Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women."

"I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The wedding fell through. I then discovered I was pregnant and opted to have the child on my own. I was a professor. I was in my mid-30s. I could manage it financially."

"When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger."

"Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate for the way that work has devoured time once spent cultivating friendships."

"There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality."

"The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex."