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Top Susan Faludi Quotes

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1. "When the enemy has no face, society will invent one." ~ Susan Faludi
2. "When an attack on home soil causes cultural paroxysms that have nothing to do with the attack, when we respond to real threats to our nation by distrusting ourselves with imagined threats to femininity and family life, when we invest our leaders with a cartoon masculinity and require of them bluster in lieu of a capacity for rational calculation, and when we blame our frailty in 'fifth column' feminists - in short, when we base our security on a mythical male strength that can only increase itself against a mythical female weakness - we should know that we are exhibiting the symptoms of a lethal, albeit curable, cultural affliction (p. 295)." ~ Susan Faludi
3. "Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness." ~ Susan Faludi
4. "Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations." ~ Susan Faludi
5. "As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it." ~ Susan Faludi
6. "I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are." ~ Susan Faludi
7. "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." ~ Susan Faludi
8. "What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership." ~ Susan Faludi
9. "Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much." ~ Susan Faludi
10. "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

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