Susan Faludi Quotes

• Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dad—a finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

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• A backlash against women’s rights is nothing new. Indeed, it’s a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

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• The more women are paid, the less eager they are to marry.

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• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.

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• The media and the rest of popular culture weren’t recording people’s reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people’s throats.

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• I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power – and it isn’t even clear who they are.

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• What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

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• The women’s movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn’t been built.

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• The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

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• The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

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• Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

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• A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

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• Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

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• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him — or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

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• My goal is to be accused of being strident.

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• The ‘feminine’ woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.

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• Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to “choose” between public justice and private happiness.

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Susan Faludi (17)

Birth:	18th April, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Feminist, Journalist

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