In the Darkroom Quotes

“The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“Yet Hirschfeld espoused an ethic directly at odds with the dualism that would come to prevail in the United States later in the century. “The number of actual and imaginable sexual varieties is almost unending,” Hirschfeld wrote in 1910. “In each person there is a different mixture of manly and womanly substances, and as we cannot find two leaves alike on a tree, then it is highly unlikely that we will find two humans whose manly and womanly characteristics equally match in kind and number.”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“The story belonged to Christine Jorgensen, the first sex-change celebrity.”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“IN THE DARKROOM”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“I know that nobody who has grown up in a Jewish environment can ever be not-a-Jew, whether the Jewishness he experienced was defined by his family’s sense of history, by its religious observances, or, indeed, by the environment’s attitudes toward Jews.”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“masculinity lies rather in the problem of identity,” Schlesinger concluded”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom

“Hungarian citizens filed 30,000 denunciations”
― Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom