Pregnancy takes a huge physical toll on your body. I have many friends who have had babies and many of them require medical help and attention, emerg…

- Abigail Tarttelin

I started thinking about gender and how it's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of t…

- Abigail Tarttelin

I would say that it's very difficult to personally construct your gender. I think a lot of it is socially constructed. If you look at The New York Ti…

- Abigail Tarttelin

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

- Abigail Tarttelin

A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing we're bor…

- Abigail Tarttelin

Even though I grew up in an area of England that was more conservative than my personal politics and my family's personal politics, I grew up with a …

- Abigail Tarttelin

What you're born with dictates your life. Do you run home after dark? Do you choose an apartment in a questionable neighborhood? I dated a guy a few …

- Abigail Tarttelin

I have a guy friend who said to me, "Hey, you know it's strange, feminism is cool now." I think now people understand that being a feminist means eve…

- Abigail Tarttelin