by Deborah Quinn | May 30, 2019 | aging, Feminism, Politics
Between March 25and April 3, Gloria Steinem, Jane Goodall, and Nancy Pelosi all had birthdays. Nancy is the spring chicken: she turned 79 on the 28th of March. When she turns 80 next year, she will be in good company: Toni Morrison, Yoko Ono, Glenda Jackson, Judi...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 1, 2019 | aging, Feminism, Gender, health
The amazing Viola Davis was on Jimmy Kimmel the other day, talking about, among other things, the care-and-tending of an Afro, the dangers of an MRI, and menopause. Jimmy asked her how long menopause lasts, and Viola said—without missing a beat—that someone needed to...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 28, 2017 | Children, Education, Feminism, Gender, Politics, tech life
Vanity Fair magazine recently ran a profile of Elon Musk that focused on the ways that Musk is at odds with other tech gurus about the relative merits of artificial intelligence (AI). Musk, who thinks that A.I. is humanity’s biggest threat, is quoted as saying...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 18, 2016 | Feminism, Gender, Politics
Poor Melania Trump. All she wanted was to marry a millionaire and settle down to an untroubled existence in a gold-leafed penthouse. Once she’d produced the requisite heir—the double-barreled Barron, whose exhaustion on election night mirrored the country’s—she’d...
by Deborah Quinn | Apr 22, 2016 | aging, Feminism, pop culture, sex
I read Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple when I was about fourteen, probably too young to understand its full complexity. All I understood was that the world conspired against Celie–and at fourteen, that’s sort of how the world felt to me, too....
by Deborah Quinn | Aug 6, 2015 | Children, family, Feminism, Gender, Kids, Parenting, Politics, ranting
Six years ago, I wrote a post about Dr George Tiller, who was murdered by someone who called himself “pro-life.” I’ll leave you a minute to savor the horrific ironies in that statement. And now, six years later, it’s not only the body of a...
