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“Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.”

Susan Faludi

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The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

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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…

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When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

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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.

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Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

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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,…

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I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

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I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

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I'm gonna bring America together.

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We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

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