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

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.

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

A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?

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

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?