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

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

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

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.

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

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

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.