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.

Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

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

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

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