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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

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