While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.