Hanna Rosin famous quotes

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Motivation #Inspiration #Skills

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Boundaries #Gracious

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

#Games #People #Wrecks

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

#Males #Different #Routine

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

#Home #Brain #Research

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

#Children #Long #Exam

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

#Space #Wonder #Amazement

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Running #Thinking #Men

Pop culture is like our subconscious.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Culture #Pop Culture #Pops

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

#Powerful #Men #Psychology

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Vegas #Justice #Soul

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Children #Media #Hands

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

#Kings #Past #Circles

We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Real #Problem #Realms

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Men #Definitions #Manhood

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Children #Perfect #Environment

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Mother #Motivation #Inspiration

The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Motivation #Inspiration #Successful

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

#Teacher #Couple #School

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Party #Issues #Tea

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

#Adventure #Names #Discovery

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

#Dog #Cat #Ends

Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Jobs #Training #Green

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Giving #Choices #Feminism

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Factories #Used

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

#Numbers #Facts #Doe

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Hard Times #Ideas #Culture

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

#Baby #Parenting #Emotional

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.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Powerful #Men #Vain

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Believe #Men #Needs

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Class #Feminist #Female

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Men #Needs #Facts

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Feminist #Type

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Men #Opening Up #Entrepreneurship

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Girl #Couple #Boys

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Men #Numbers #Average

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Husband #Dad #Home

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

#Quilts #Men #Kitchen

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Thinking #Feminist #Should

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
-- Hanna Rosin

#Taken #Independent #House