"To be unwed and female was to succumb……" — Susan Faludi
"To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage."
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27 Quotes by Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi has 27 quotes on this site.
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Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It…
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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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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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More Cure Quotes
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one of 1,194 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
— Samuel Beckett
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different…
— Jeff Bridges
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix…
— Bill Bryson
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Absence - that common cure of love.
— Lord Byron
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to…
— Joseph Campbell
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the…
— John Jay Chapman
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