Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.

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

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain.