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“He’s that guy that’s so tired from work, so stressed about the project he’s working on. He’s just been through an awful breakup and it’s really hitting him hard. His parents’ divorce has scarred him and he has trust issues. Right now he has to focus on his career. He can’t get involved with anyone until he knows what his life is about. He”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“Hey—do you remember that movie when the girl waited around for the guy to ask her out, then made excuses when he didn’t? Then she slept with him when they were both drunk, and basically just hung around until they were kind of dating?”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“I don’t want to be in a serious relationship” truly means “I don’t want to be in a serious relationship with you”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.”
― Henry Van Dyke

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“Friedan did not include black women in her vision. Black”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“Black women had in fact already made some of the very points for which Friedan was being hailed.”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“But there was no consideration that those single incomes were a result as much as a cause,”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“In 1969, University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon wrote that “the institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation of the oppression of women . . .”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“feminist Sheila Cronan wrote, “Since marriage constitutes slavery for women . . . Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“The only way some feminists were able to absorb the notion of a woman who didn’t necessarily want to marry a man was to understand her as homosexual. At”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“Steinem’s most powerful gift was her ability to synthesize radical sentiments into appealingly pithy, era-defining sound bites.”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“More sharply, Steinem argued that marriage rendered women “half people,”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“the recognition that Americans’ rights should neither be circumscribed nor made more expansive based simply on whether they were wed.”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“It is finally becoming possible to be both single and whole.”22”
― Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre