Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.