Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

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

You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out. I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with. There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist.

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.