Susan Faludi Quotes

United States, Journalist
April 18, 1959

Susan Charlotte Faludi is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance". She was also awarded the Kirkus Prize in 2016 for In the Darkroom.

My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.

Susan Faludi
Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

Susan Faludi

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Susan Faludi
Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

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

Susan Faludi
- Strong
- Weak
- Heroism
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

Susan Faludi
- Man
- Peace
- Mass
When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Susan Faludi
- Society
- Enemy
- Face
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

Susan Faludi

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

Susan Faludi
- Women
- Enemy
- Movement
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

Susan Faludi
- Women
- Desire
- Challenge