The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?