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

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

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.

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

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