My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.
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I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.
I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.