the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

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.

In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe.

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

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

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

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