Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

This storm is dangerous

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

The weather still continues charming.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.