Helen Fisher Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

  Helen Fisher

  Children, Commitment, Years

  "After All of the Celebrity Divorces, Do You Still Have Faith in Marriage?" by Sarah Wildman, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

• Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

  Helen Fisher

  Clothes, Sheep, Dinner

• Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

  Helen Fisher

  Children, Average, Europe

• Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

  Helen Fisher

  School, College, Men

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