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 as a grown-up. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
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 Image
I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
