Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.