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

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

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

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

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

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.