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I grew up in a house of forthright women.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.