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

Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.

I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.