Susan Faludi Quotes

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

They feel cheated of a useful role in society, and that's what manhood has historically been grounded in. - Susan Faludi

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. - Susan Faludi

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. - Susan Faludi

The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness. - Susan Faludi

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. - Susan Faludi

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

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

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

One thing that has struck me so far about the presidential election is how much it's a father-son story, which I think is very telling, because so much of the men's crisis is that they feel there's nothing being handed down, that there's no patrimony. - Susan Faludi

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