[In response to a comment from the floor that] Sharia law will make all of the gains women made go up in a puff of smoke, ... the Christians and Jewish courts got their laws in the Arbitration Act and quietly under the radar the Jews and Christians have started to use it.

No religious law should have the force of secular law,

The pressure on young working women to succeed totally in every aspect of their lives and be totally devoted to their children - the pressure is unimaginable. You don't have to imagine it - you live it. Young women today feel pressured to be perfect. ... essential issue.

[Rebick said it's time for younger women to take over the fight for equality, adding she wrote Ten Thousand Roses out of fear the history of the women's movement in Canada would get lost. Following the rise of feminism during the 1960s to 1980s,] we've seen almost a complete disappearance of the women's voice. A whole generation of women have grown up without any knowledge of the women's movement, ... There were no popular books on feminism so I wrote one.

I'm disappointed that Marian Boyd, who is a feminist, would recommend such a thing,

Changing the bottom line - the economic line - and caring for each other and for the community, that's what feminism is about today,