Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it? Something just isn't making sense there. So I think when young women hear like, hey, someone's trying to get something over on me, you know, someone's trying to deliberately keep me away from a movement that could make my life better, I think that really resonates with them.

I think anyone who wants the social, political and economic equality for women can call themselves a feminist. It does get trickier, of course, when you see anti-woman politicians or pundits claiming the feminist label while working hard to dismantle feminist gains.