Quotes by Susan Faludi

“[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.”

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by womens 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.

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.

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.

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

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…. Dont you let anyone talk you out of it.

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.

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

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

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