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Susan Faludi Quotes
«[Feminism] 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.»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
«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, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
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«The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
«As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
«They feel cheated of a useful role in society, and that's what manhood has historically been grounded in,»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
«One thing that has struck me so far about the presidential election is how much it's a father-son story, which I think is very telling, because so much of the men's crisis is that they feel there's nothing being handed down, that there's no patrimony,»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
«And you look at the candidates, and particularly George W. Bush's, just imagery-wise, allows people to feel that -- particularly men, to feel that something was handed down from father to son, that there is a legacy. And similarly with Gore, who's father was senator, and similarly with someone like John McCain, who just wrote a book on his father. »
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)