Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

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

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

Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

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?

My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

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