Selected Susan Faludi Quotations
• My goal is to be accused of being strident.
• Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It 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 internal qualities once said to embody manhood - sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose -- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.
• Women are enslaved by their own liberation.
• 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.
• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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Jone Johnson Lewis. "Susan Faludi Quotes." About Women's History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/qu_susan_faludi.htm . Date accessed: (today). (More on how to cite online sources including this page)
