Literary Birthday –18 April – Susan Faludi

Happy Birthday, Susan Faludi, born 18 April 1959.

Seven Quotes

1. When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
2. Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.
3. 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.
4. As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.
5. 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.
6. The women’s movement hit my neighbourhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn’t been built.
7. The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

Susan Faludi is an American humanist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992 for Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.

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by Amanda Patterson

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