Quotes by Hanna Rosin

About Hanna Rosin:

Hanna Rosin is an American author and writer. She is co-founder of DoubleX, a women's site connected to the online magazine Slate.
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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.

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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 Ame...

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

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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...

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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...

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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.

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

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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartm...

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

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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

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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.

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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 i...

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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

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

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Pop culture is like our subconscious.

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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

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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 cal...

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

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

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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

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Author Bio

  • NameHanna Rosin
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • Born1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Israel
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist