Rebecca Traister
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ALLAN GURGANUS HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I later became more interested in equal rights for women in the work place because of what was happe... JEAN JENNINGS BARTIK For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house... CATHLEEN SCHINE After the law was announced, we started getting calls from women who wanted to know what would happe... JENNIFER MILLER Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others marri... LILLIAN FADERMAN Three and a half weeks after we met, we were engaged, and then six months later we were married. HOWARD NICODEMUS The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were com... FREDDIE WONG Washington is full of famous men, and women they married when they were young FANNY DIXWELL HOLMES ENDA KENNY H. L. MENCKEN H. L. MENCKEN HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were afte... BARBARA CASTLE If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in pract... MARGO JEFFERSON GAIL COLLINS ALICE WALKER There are diverse opinions around the world. Yes, I even hear my countrymen say that when America wa... ALFONSO NUNZIANTE LINDA GRANT My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. g... OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON H. L. MENCKEN DIERKS BENTLEY JUNE CARTER CASH I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore... CYNTHIA NIXON KERRY WASHINGTON Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened... DAVID K. E. BRUCE It changed poetry for ever in the UK. It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more... ADRIAN MITCHELL ALICE WALKER GLORIA STEINEM LAURA SCHLESSINGER MAYA ANGELOU NANCY ASTOR CHER NANCY ASTOR NANCY ASTOR I married beneath me. All women do. NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS TOM HANKS GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Women were accustomed to making substantial efforts to please men, while men spent comparatively lit... KATE COOPER The war caused teams to look at black players seriously for the first time due to the shortage of wh... LARRY HARTZELL A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have ... ANNA MAGNANI Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly... HOWARD JACOBSON World War II has continued well after it was 'finished' LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1... CORRINE BROWN 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-c... ELIZABETH WARREN NICK HARKAWAY REBECCA TRAISTER He was fully aware that he was legally married. She didn't know about it in the first place. ANGELO VAUGHN TED KOPPEL If women really wanted to change society, they could do it. I plan to change it. I just want to get ... ALLY MCBEAL [The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rej... ADRIAN MITCHELL CHRISTINA ROMER ZSA ZSA GABOR Highly educated women should challenge social taboos and get married to a man who is less educated, ... LU JIANMIN CAMILLE PAGLIA WILMA RUDOLPH NATASHA TRETHEWEY AUDREY HEPBURN WILMA RUDOLPH Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals. ELIZABETH ROBINSON SCHWARTZ There are many women who are happy to be married, but only a few who are married happily. CURT GOETZ After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. STEPHEN KINZER However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not ... WALTER KOHN GEORGE BERNARD SHAW RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting... WARREN CHRISTOPHER H. L. MENCKEN HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN There are two kinds of women who like to talk a lot; the married women and the single ones. VIKRANT PARSAI PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY H. L. MENCKEN H. L. MENCKEN GLORIA STEINEM H. L. MENCKEN HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN SAM KEAN TED KOPPEL AL PACINO RICK ATKINSON KATE MOSS The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- i... SAMHITA MUKHOPADHYAY BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ZOOEY DESCHANEL Did you know that at one time trick-or-treating was stopped? It's true. During World War II children... LINDA BOZZO H.G. WELLS CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN The market is shrinking and they're fighting for the market share. Going after young people and wome... KIMBERLY JOHNSON CLARA ZETKIN People don't think of nuns as pioneers, but because they were free from having to care for a family,... JACQUELINE LANDRY JAPANESE PROVERB JAPANESE PROVERB INDRA NOOYI C.S. LEWIS Pocahontas' wedding was definitely a well-thought political move on her part, something she did for ... CAMILLA TOWNSEND In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I go... PAUL ALLEN BELL HOOKS SAM BROWNBACK When people get married quickly after meeting each other, they get into the real world and start fun... JENNIFER WARD SHAKIRA
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It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper a... 
Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. 
The world has changed utterly. There was a time when you couldn't marry a Protestant. There was ... 
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. 
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. 
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, ... 
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but ... 
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war t... 
I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. E... 
They were just people who were deeply in love with each other and couldn't be together at first. He ... 
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the ... 
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl... 
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women... 
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t... 
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de... 
I married beneath me, all women do. 
I married beneath me. All women do. 
I married beneath me; all women do. 
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six... 
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. 
I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchise... 
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ... 
[Jennings, ABC's chief news anchor for more than 20 years, was also] famously attracted to women, ..... 
In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skill... 
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. 
I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but w... 
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve year... 
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My ... 
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medic... 
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. 
After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later. 
The only really happy folk are married women and single men. 
American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn... 
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa... 
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... 
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f... 
I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So th... 
Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, ... 
True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years a... 
She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter ... 
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways 
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All married women are not wives 
All married women are not wives. 
But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't g... 
Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up aga... 
...enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to becom... 
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The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ... 
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Being classy is my teenage rebellion. 
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