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 More Quotes by Susan Faludi More Quotes From Susan Faludi the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. Susan Faludi argument unhappiness responsible The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness. Susan Faludi fairy-tale waiting doe I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. Susan Faludi hands people thinking As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. Susan Faludi employment injustice facts Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture. Susan Faludi males essentials men the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall. Susan Faludi powerful winning lying In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe. Susan Faludi xenophobia europe years the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal. Susan Faludi sexism argument heart When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. Susan Faludi faces enemy My goal is to be accused of being strident. Susan Faludi accused goal For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd. Susan Faludi feminist purpose men I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior. Susan Faludi nurturing quality special Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state. Susan Faludi hungary becoming states The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views. Susan Faludi makeup feminist views I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean? Susan Faludi writing mean thinking Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. Susan Faludi self america promise Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic. Susan Faludi single-women panic marriage The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation. Susan Faludi cocoons women rabbits To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage. Susan Faludi illness female marriage The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman. Susan Faludi thieves eras men
