"Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women……" — Susan Faludi
"Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men."
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Susan Faludi
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27 Quotes by Susan Faludi
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In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women…
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to…
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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…
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When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
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That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same…
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As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal…
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Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up…
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Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
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The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they…
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Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted…
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To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
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An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side,…
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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's…
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're…
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot…
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want…
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But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction…
— Eric Cantor
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public…
— Eric Alterman
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It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that,…
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