Rebecca Traister Quotes

It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.

When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.

I wanted to be like Jo March in 'Little Women.' I wanted to be married to a man who would give me lots of sons.

In the individualist ideology, a man is responsible for his wife and children. This relegates women to domestic roles as wives and mothers protected by their menfolk, or silences them as special interest harpies demanding government benefits that will destroy individualist men.

Many years ago, when I was born in the '50s - '50s and '60s didn't belong to girls in India. They belonged to boys. They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from parents, and girls would be dolled up to get married.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.

In our world marriage was the best option for any woman. No girl ever chose to have a career unless she couldn't get a man. It was very much a tertiary life.

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.

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

Girls and boys also face the societal pressure to get married which I find wrong.

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.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been sort of codified: misogyny and ownership and the patriarchy. So what happens when two very, very disparate families come together for one wedding?

When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.

I think it is very difficult for a man to accept a celebrity as his wife. One has to be extremely emancipated to do it. No Indian male is.

In India, tradition is paramount. Husband-wife relationship is okay. They do not allow girls to go out.