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The way most historians describe this transformation is to say that the child went from “useful” to “protected.” But the sociologist Viviana Zelizer came up with a far more pungent phrase. She characterized the modern child as “economically worthless but emotionally priceless.”
Jennifer Senior • All Joy and No Fun
The men say they want to know why Woody Allen makes women so angry. After all, a great work of art is supposed to bring us a feeling. And yet when I say Manhattan makes me feel urpy, a man says, No, not that feeling. You’re having the wrong feeling. He speaks with authority: Manhattan is a work of genius. But who gets to say? Authority says the
... See moreClaire Dederer • Monsters
She decided that she would never deprive her own children that way.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
"It will be like a nunnery under an abbess—a peaceful, harmonious sisterhood."
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Emily in Paris may as well have been a screen saver of Paris,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Muitos editores afirmam que isso é impossível porque as leitoras ainda não querem essas características o bastante.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
It never did to compare your wife and your mistress, because your wife always won, the way the classics were better, the way the jazz standards had nuances no other songs had. Still, those pop ditties of the moment could sometimes get stuck in Hood’s head. Sometimes they articulated a whole season of trouble at the office. Sometimes they
... See moreRick Moody • The Ice Storm
Eddie encouraged her, and of course she would do anything he wanted, although she couldn’t really see how another few months of classes could make any difference when simply being near Eddie made her so much more aware of everything she read and heard and saw that she felt like a different person.