Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.