What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of… — Farrah Fawcett Copy Share Image
If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them. — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with -- that’s the way I was… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash. — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
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… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal. — 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