Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

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.

There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

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

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.

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