Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.