85 Quotes by Hanna Rosin

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.

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.

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.

Feminism was about making women’s lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

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

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.

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

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.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting ‘big ideas’ pieces.