Occupation: Journalist Birth: April 18, 1959
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture..
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 ….
the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories t….
The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics,….
When the enemy has no face, society will invent one..
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching clo….
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot eve….
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards ….
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girli….
the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously ef….
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended in….
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong..
Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yo….
Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-….
All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and wh….
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness..
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship..
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote..
Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic..
My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more….
We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only a….