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 media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

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

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