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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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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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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Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
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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 silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
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It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
