Susan Faludi

“When an attack on home soil causes cultural paroxysms that have nothing to do with the attack, when we respond to real…

— Susan Faludi

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was…

— Susan Faludi

Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a…

— Susan Faludi

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

— Susan Faludi

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

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…

— Susan Faludi

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

— Susan Faludi

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

— Susan Faludi

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated…

— Susan Faludi

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

— Susan Faludi

“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the…

— Susan Faludi

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

— Susan Faludi

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

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the…

— Susan Faludi

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

— Susan Faludi

“masculinity lies rather in the problem of identity,” Schlesinger concluded”

— Susan Faludi

We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,…

— Susan Faludi

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

— Susan Faludi

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

— Susan Faludi

An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops…

— Susan Faludi

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list…

— Susan Faludi

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

— Susan Faludi

The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at…

— Susan Faludi

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

— Susan Faludi

Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

— Susan Faludi