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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.

I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

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.

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

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

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.