[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.