Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word out there to make it a good word in a big way by putting it in big letters on the stage, and especially because she was quoting the African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who said, "We should all be feminists." She's a very accomplished and important novelist.

The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.