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title: "1 Chopping Quotes By Susan J. Douglas"
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> [..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a man, married him, had his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/fun-you-ask-weren-t-feminists-these-grim-faced-humorless-antifamily/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

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## Other authors on Chopping

## More by Susan J. Douglas

> [“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance of middle-class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/at-the-very-same-time-that-we-witnessed-the-explosion-of-white/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“After all, the media have been and are the major dispenser of the ideals and norms surrounding motherhood: Millions of us have gone to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/after-all-the-media-have-been-and-are-the-major-dispenser-of-the/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/because-the-media-always-serve-up-heroes-and-villians-there-had-to-be/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/fun-you-ask-weren-t-feminists-these-grim-faced-humorless-antifamily/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“The frenzied hypernatalism of the women's magazines alone (and that includes People, Us, and InStyle), with their endless parade of perfect, "sexy" celebrity moms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/the-frenzied-hypernatalism-of-the-women-s-magazines-alone-and-that/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/here-s-the-progression-feminism-won-you-can-have-it-all-of-course-you/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/if-you-re-like-us-mothers-with-an-attitude-problem-you-may-be-getting/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“It's 5:22pm you're in the grocery checkout line. Your three-year-old is writhing on the floor, screaming, because you have refused to buy her a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/it-s-5-22pm-you-re-in-the-grocery-checkout-line-your-three-year-old/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/we-need-to-make-fun-of-and-ridicule-the-media-images-that-seek-to/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“To review briefly, in the late 1960s, men got paid more than women (usually double) for doing the exact same job. Women could get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/to-review-briefly-in-the-late-1960s-men-got-paid-more-than-women/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“...There were the studies, beginning in 2007, which found that the suicide rate among women who had received breast implants were twice the suicide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/there-were-the-studies-beginning-in-2007-which-found-that-the-suicide/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“Most people don’t get (or want) to look at old news footage, but we looked at thirty years of stories relating to motherhood. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/most-people-don-t-get-or-want-to-look-at-old-news-footage-but-we/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“At the same time that middle- and upper-middle-class mothers were urged to pipe Mozart into their wombs when they're pregnant so their kids would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/at-the-same-time-that-middle-and-upper-middle-class-mothers-were/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [...One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/one-of-the-reasons-so-many-women-say-i-m-not-a-feminist-but-and-then/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

> [“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-j-douglas/intensive-mothering-is-the-ultimate-female-olympics-we-are-all-in/)

[Susan J. Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-j-douglas/)

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