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Susan Faludi has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that…
• In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the…
• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some…
• The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny…
• When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
• That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that…
• As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and…
• Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.
• Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
• The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the…
• Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with…
• To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

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