Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. — 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
