"the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems."

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Susan Faludi

#Feminism Quotes #Lists Quotes #Problem Quotes

“I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.”
“For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.”
“Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.”
“Architects cannot teach nature anything.”
“I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.”
“Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1991). “One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought”, p.138, Harvard University Press
“The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.”
“As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.”

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