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.

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

[Feminism] 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 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.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

And you look at the candidates, and particularly George W. Bush's, just imagery-wise, allows people to feel that -- particularly men, to feel that something was handed down from father to son, that there is a legacy. And similarly with Gore, who's father was senator, and similarly with someone like John McCain, who just wrote a book on his father.