Susan Faludi (Susan Charlotte Faludi) Quotes
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
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Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.
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I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.
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The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.
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My family have always kept my feet well and truly on the ground. I was very lucky that a lot of the other band members got married and had kids at the same time, so there was a lot of normality around.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I'm not a Beverly Hills dude.
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
