The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight. They let you know who the better debater is but they don't really tell you about the issue. It's all heat, but no light.