Well, now that we're SlutWalking, creating alternatives to marriage, defending Planned Parenthood, and basically bringing feminism back (you're welcome!), it's about time we re-acknowledged one of the most important figures in women's lib, turn-of-the-century birth control activist Margaret Sanger. READ MORE

The very funny Merrill Markoe has written for TV, movies, print, and talk radio. She wrote for Laugh-In, Newhart, Moonlighting, and Sex and the City, and she's probably best known for her Emmy award-winning work on Late Night With David Letterman, where she invented the segments Stupid Pet Tricks — and its Stupid Human Tricks spinoff — and Viewer Mail. In her new memoir Cool, Calm & Contentious, she dissects her life in show business and beyond, recalling that virginity was "something to be gotten rid of quickly, then never discussed again, like body odor." I spoke with Merrill about her career in comedy, and her Lynda Barry envy. READ MORE

Patricia Marx was the first woman elected to The Harvard Lampoon, her first paid job was writing for Saturday Night Live, and she currently writes “On and Off the Avenue” and occasional “Shouts & Murmurs” columns for The New Yorker. She also writes books: the satirical How to Regain Your Virginity, the children’s book Dot in Larryland (with illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast), and, as of today, the novel Starting From Happy. So we asked her some hard-hitting questions, like who she’s dating, why she doesn’t like shopping, and how to make friends. READ MORE