The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman. — 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 that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that… — 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 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
