Susan Faludi Quotes
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.
Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.
Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.
Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.
To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.
The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.
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.
The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.
the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.
The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.
As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.
At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.