Susan Faludi Quotations

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

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.

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.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

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.

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

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.