The Cosby Show’ was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The Huxtables had white friends. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Bill Clinton had to propose to Hillary Rodham several times before she agreed to marry him and move to Arkansas. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, ‘Women’s rights are human rights,’ and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the ’18 million cracks’ in the glass ceiling. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration’s messages, but he is a masterful orator. Bill Clinton, too. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem, Sofia Coppola acting in ‘The Godfather: Part III,’ Sarah Palin talking about Russia – they all create the same level of eyeball-squinching discomfort. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
The contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offered such a bright and bracing contrast to all those professional wrestlers emerging from the RNC’s clown car. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
The diminishment of southern contests is the kind of veiled racist rhetoric that Bill Clinton deployed memorably in South Carolina in 2008, and which does not look any more attractive on Bernie – the guy whose campaign is centered on the premise that he plays cleaner and more progressive politics than his opponents. Rebecca Traister Read Quote
