It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

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.

I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.

If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else to lead them, I think, God bless them. All of us should be doing that. The left should be doing that.

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. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual - and hence social - confidence while undermining that of women.

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.