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.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

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

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

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.

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

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.