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

If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?

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.

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

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.

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.