10 Quotes & Sayings By Hanna Rosin

Hanna Rosin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Her reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Ms., Vogue, Rolling Stone, Slate, Wired, and the BBC. She also writes for The Atlantic. Ellen McGirtig is senior writer at Salon.com Read more

Her reporting has appeared in The New Republic, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and many other publications. Her book Love2 is published by Penguin Books.

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It's more that they think about sexism in the same way people in London must think about bad weather: It's an omnipresent and unpleasant fact of life, but it shouldn't keep you from going about your business. Hanna Rosin
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. Hanna Rosin
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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. Hanna Rosin
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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
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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. Hanna Rosin
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive. Hanna Rosin
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. Hanna Rosin
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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. Hanna Rosin
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men. Hanna Rosin