Why are you dressed as a man?” Neeva said. “Why do you act like…” She paused. “Why do you act like… like one of them?” Her voice rose, challenging and accusatory. “Them,” she said again....

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then...

It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and...

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.