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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.