Latest Susan Faludi Quotes from Interviews

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• Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

  Susan Faludi

  Self, America, Promise

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe.

  Susan Faludi

  Xenophobia, Years, Europe

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

• Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

  Susan Faludi

  Becoming, States, Hungary

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

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

  Susan Faludi

  Complicated, Gender, Individualistic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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.

• I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

  Susan Faludi

  Special, Quality, Nurturing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.

  Susan Faludi

  Ideas, Dresses, Female

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

  Susan Faludi

  Makeup, Views, Feminist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

  Susan Faludi

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com