Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

In 1973, I left the Rockefeller University to join the Yale University Medical School. The main reason for the move was my belief that the time had come for fruitful interactions between the new discipline of Cell Biology and the traditional fields of interest of medical schools, namely Pathology and Clinical Medicine.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.