I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let them imagine that this combat among women is not inevitable. Surgeons can now do anything. We have not yet reached the age in which we can defend ourselves with an unwillingness to have "anything" done. This is a dangerous time. New possibilities for women quickly become new obligations.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

The media needs to tell a story. And whenever there's a new generation, you know, with a new conversation, it's handy to say well, these are the angry young men, these are the hippies, these are the boomers.