Author: Rebecca Traister

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There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.

There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.

- Rebecca Traister

It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.

It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder that single life might be preferable.

- Rebecca Traister

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

- Rebecca Traister

When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,' or 'I am rejecting marriage.'

When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,' or 'I am rejecting marriage.'

- Rebecca Traister

By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.

By demanding more from men and from marriage, it's single women who have perhaps played as large a part as anyone in saving marriage in America.

- Rebecca Traister

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