It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).
Gloria SteinemOppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
Gloria SteinemWe do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.
Gloria Steinem