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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

Radical feminism is still threatening.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.

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

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.