Susan Faludi (Susan Charlotte Faludi) Quotes
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
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Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
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And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
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Make it just like a Mac.
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I think that many of the mobilizations against the wars waged by the US and its allies since 2001 have been non-violent and massive. We have seen them throughout European capitals and in the US, and in many other parts of the world as well. So it is not only imaginable, but already actual.
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.
