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• 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 dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists.

  Susan Faludi

  Children, Home, Looks

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

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• God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire

  William S. Burroughs

  Karma, Queens, Stupid

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• Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

  Eli Roth

  Speaks Out, Firsts, Speak

  "Eli Roth 'Furious' Over 'Hostel' Pirates". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2007.

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• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Stronger, Easier

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• People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

  Erica Jong

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Feminism, Internet

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, America, Roles

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• George W. Bush, another Republican who I probably didn`t agree with on much, right after 9/11 went to a mosque and joined with some Muslim leaders and said that, look, you know, we`re not going to tolerate any backlash. These people who attacked our country are criminals and they`re terrorists, and they might try to profess a religion, but they definitely violate the principles of that religion.

  Steve King

  Country, People, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

  Zac Efron

  Gay, Rumor, Way

  "'I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay' - Zac Efron opens up about homosexuality" by Corinne Redfern, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2012.

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• It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

  Rick Perlstein

  Sex, Mean, Top Down

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• The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

  Thomas Frank

  Real, War, Party

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, April 1, 2007.

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• There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Important, Elites

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians have been under the good influences of their churches that they are a tolerant people, an understanding and patient people, so that there has been little backlash against the excesses which have happened over the decades in French and in English Canada which might turn either group off.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

  Collin Peterson

  Political, Political Correctness, Correctness

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak up and gain some more rights, but what happened was there was a backlash. Why? Because we have the Salafists, Muslim Brothers, religious groups.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Religious, Brother, Rights

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Growing, Resistance

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• Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

  Shane Black

  People, Mind, Scripts

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• When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Turkeys, International

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• After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in yoga mats. Some people were like, 'You mean I've been eating a dangerous chemical?' While most people were like, 'You mean I can eat my yoga mat?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yoga, Mean, People

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• You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

  Sara Bareilles

  Speaking Up, Lack Of Love, Outcast

  Song: Brave, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013

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• I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Israel, Land, Would Be

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• We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.

  Jerry Brown

  Fashion, Real, Goal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as elegantly as you can, "I wasn't trying to represent you I, was just doing what I could do to make being alive easier for me." And if it helped anyone or made them feel comforted in the process then it's the greatest thing you can ask for.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Trying, Alive

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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