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We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

Feminism is like any female-dominated group - a perpetual catfight.

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.