85 Quotes by Hanna Rosin

Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

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