The Flipside of Feminism Quotes

“Does rejecting feminism mean rejecting women's equality? No, because that's not what feminism is about. Rejecting feminism means recognizing that women don't need feminism to make them equal to men because they already are equal--just not the same.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“Conservatism is a natural state because it accepts human nature as it is, rather than trying to fight it.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“no amount of money in the world can make up for parental absence. It’s one of life’s harshest realities.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“The pursuit of promiscuous sexual pleasures leads chiefly to misery and despair.
—George Gilder”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“Feminism has indeed made women miserable. It was a mistake to encourage women to ignore their feminine instincts and whine about how badly they have it.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“People who succeed do not expect every company to reward fairly; they screen for companies that will recognize their contribution,” wrote Warren Farrell, Ph.D. in The Myth of Male Power.2”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“My parents were forever making lemonade. Neither responded to problems by drinking too much, taking anti-depressants, overeating, or suggesting they were victims. In fact, I can’t recall a single day my parents slept in—the way many of us might when life throws a wrench in our plans. My parents were (are in the case of my mother—my father died in 2008) unfailingly resilient people, capable of waking up each day with a positive attitude, a new resolve to make things better. Part of this was due to their personalities, but it was also because of the generation in which they were raised.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“Feminists want you to think the reason mothers in the past didn’t do what mothers do today is because women were oppressed. But the real reason women planned their lives accordingly is because they were less focused on themselves and more concerned with the greater good, and part of the greater good meant taking responsibility for one’s children. Modern women, on the other hand, have been taught to focus on their own needs—what they want is what matters most in life. So if women don’t want to, or “choose” to, stay home with their children, they shouldn’t have to. Despite”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“1. Casual sex is a dead-end street, and cohabitation does not lead to a successful marriage.
2. Marriage is the ultimate goal, and divorce should not be assumed to be an option.
3. Children need, deserve, and want to be raised by their own parents, who are married to each other.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“Feminists don’t know what they want. They fight to protect themselves from their own mistakes, but then they fight for the freedom to make those mistakes. They want free sex, but they also want the ability to punish the man when they change their mind.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“Many people don’t realize that the entire women’s movement was predicated on a Marxist view of the world. Feminism is a branch of socialism, or collectivism, which draws on a sociopolitical movement that attempts to create a stateless society in which policy decisions are pursued in the (supposed) best interest of society. Feminism, like communism, depends on hypothesizing an oppressed class.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“Feminism is a structural analysis of a world that oppresses women, an ideology based on the notion that patriarchy exists and that it needs to end.”24”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“If feminism appears to be dead, that’s only because the media seldom use the term feminist. This makes feminism appear mainstream, rather than a fringe movement.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. —C. S. Lewis”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say

“there has never been a better time for women to have it all. A feminist or left-wing approach to life will not help women achieve this goal. A conservative approach will.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say

“It is our sincere hope that this book helps support Americans who don’t believe women in this country are oppressed, who know government is not the solution to women’s problems, who don’t believe marriage and motherhood are outdated institutions, who think men are as important as women, who think gender roles are good and exist for a reason, and who see the mainstream media for who they are.”
― Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say