Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.