the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
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… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views. — Susan Faludi Copy Share
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness;… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
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… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
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… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
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. — Susan Faludi Copy Share
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. — Susan Faludi Copy Share
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,… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior. — Susan Faludi Copy Share
That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
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… — Susan Faludi Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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