Hanna Rosin

"Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men."

"Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming."

"NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example."

"Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive."

"Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard."

"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."

"I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing."

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