Susan Faludi

“The media are the conduit for the backlash.”

“A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed, it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway toward equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.”

“The backlash is not a conspiracy, with a council dispatching agents from some central control room. It is not a settled political program or a single comprehensive policy. It is a trend.”

“Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.”

“American manhood is a counterfeit, and the men who wear it are counterfeit, too.”

“All of feminism is a theory of social justice.”

“It is the misperception of scarcity, fostered by a consumer culture, that breeds the impulse to hoard, to overconsume, and to live unsustainably.”

“The culture of ornament, which is the culture of celebrity, is a culture that is anti-man.”

“The demand that women 'return to the home' is a convenient and traditional scapegoat for a variety of social and economic ills.”

“The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging smile accompanies an eternal pirouette that she must dance on point, standing on her toes, forever smiling...”

“Identity is a story we tell ourselves and others about who we are, and it’s a story that’s constantly being revised.”

“The crisis of masculinity is not a crisis of men. It is a crisis of a society that has failed men.”