Susan Faludi Quotes

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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.

  Susan Faludi

  Voice, Forever, Body

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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

  Susan Faludi

  Women, Justice, Feminist

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

  Susan Faludi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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

  Susan Faludi

  Strong, Men, Heroism

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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.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

  Susan Faludi

  Enemy, Faces

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

  Susan Faludi

  America, Years, Justice

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

  Susan Faludi

  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Movement

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• For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Feminist, Purpose

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.

  Susan Faludi

  Determination, Children, Self

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

  Susan Faludi

  Complicated, Gender, Individualistic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.

  Susan Faludi

  Real, Dark, Past

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• An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.

  Susan Faludi

  Curves, Rights, Goal

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

  Susan Faludi

  Self Esteem, Believe, Feminism

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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.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Fairy Tale

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• Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

  Susan Faludi

  Liberation

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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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.

  Susan Faludi

  Moving, Complaining, Culture

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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

  Susan Faludi

  Real, People, Want

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• As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

  Susan Faludi

  Equality, Views, Choices

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.

  Susan Faludi

  Views, Feminist, Generations

  "Dear Susan, I Have Some Interesting News for You…". Interview With Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2016.

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• Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Males, Essentials

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.

  Susan Faludi

  Jobs, Powerful, Opportunity

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• the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

  Susan Faludi

  Winning, Simple, Effort

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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