Susan Faludi Quotes

The Media And The Rest Of Popular Culture Weren't Recording People's Reactions To 9/11; They Were Forcing Made-up Reactions Down People's Throats.

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.

Social Scientists Could Supply Plenty Of Research To Show That One Member Of The Family, At Least, Is Happier And More Well Adjusted When Mum Stays Home And Looks After The Children. But That Person Is Dada Finding Of Limited Use To Backlash Publicists.

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.

The Women's Movement Hit My Neighborhood Like A Freight Train. Everybody Got Divorced. You Wonder What Would Have Happened To Women If The Suburbs Hadn't Been Built.

Women Who Had Discovered Pants, Low-heeled Shoes, And Loose Sweaters During World War Ii Were Reluctant To Give Them Up In Peacetime.

The Backlash Convinced The Public That Women's 'liberation' Was The True Contemporary American Scourge - The Source Of An Endless Laundry List Of Personal, Social, And Economic Problems.

That So-called Feminine Ardor For Clothes Shopping Had Been Flagging For Some Time. Between 1980 And 1986, At The Same Time That Women Were Buying More Houses, Cars, Restaurant Dinners, And Health Care Services, They Were Buying Fewer Pieces Of Clothing-from Dresses To Underwear.

The Economic Victims Of The Era Are Men Who Who Know Someone Has Made Off With Their Future- And They Suspect The Thief Is A Woman.

The American Woman Has Not Yet Slipped Into A Cocoon, But She Has Tumbled Down A Rabbit Hole Into Sudden Isolation.

Having Whipped Single Women Into High Marital Panic-or "nuptialitis," As One Columnist Called It- The Press Hastened To Soothe Fretted Brows With Conjugal Tonic.

Trump's "make America Great Again" Program Trumpets A National Identity Built On Scapegoating, Self-pity And Grandiosity, And The Promise Of A Strongman.