Susan Faludi Quotes

Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliché, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

feminism is for everybody

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

I still consider myself a feminist.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

I am most certainly a feminist.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.