The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.
the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.
the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.
Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
One of the things I have found in reporting on this book is that men do not feel listened to, ... That's part of their anger towards feminism, they feel like everybody else's agenda is more important than theirs.