Backlash Quote by Susan Faludi

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

— Francis Parker Yockey

The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to…

— Barbara Bergmann

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

— Marianne Williamson

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

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

— Susan Faludi

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

— Susan Faludi

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten…

— Gail Collins

“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or not the…

— Betty Friedan

“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism…

— Ruth Wisse

The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them…

— Rajiv Gandhi