Top 35 Hanna Rosin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates – and the conservative movement generally – is by consciously steering clear of social issues.”

— Hanna Rosin

2. “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

3. “I think we should all call ourselves feminists.”

— Hanna Rosin

4. “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

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

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6. “Pop culture is like our subconscious.”

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

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8. “Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.”

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9. “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

10. “We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.”

— Hanna Rosin

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

— Hanna Rosin

12. “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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13. “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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14. “Maybe there’s something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.”

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

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16. “If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.”

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17. “I deeply believe that men and women need each other.”

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18. “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

19. “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

20. “If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.”

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21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

24. “Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.”

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25. “I could do a franchise for the end of everything. ‘The End of Dogs,’ ‘The End of Cats.’”

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26. “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.”

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

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28. “The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.”

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

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

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31. “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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32. “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

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

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34. “We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.”

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35. “We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.”

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

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37. “Factories not what they used to be – they’re all extremely high-tech.”

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