We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.

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

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

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