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01Undated

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.

Susan Faludi / quote

02Undated

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.

Susan Faludi / quote

03Undated

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.

Susan Faludi / quote

04Undated

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

Susan Faludi / quote

05Undated

Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie] Julia. "I like your anger…. Don't you let anyone talk you out of it.

Susan Faludi / quote

06Undated

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.

Susan Faludi / quote

07Undated

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Susan Faludi / quote

08Undated

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Susan Faludi / quote

09Undated

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

Susan Faludi / quote