In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.

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

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.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

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

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.