The feminine woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.
Source: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
-- Susan Faludi, (Apr 18 1959-____), US writer, feminist; Her best-selling book, Backlash, 1991, characterized media distortions of women's issues as retaliation for women asserting themselves.