A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.