Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.

Ensler was born in New York and is Jewish. She reports having been physically and sexually abused by her father when she was a child.

Maggie McNeill, otherwise known as The Honest Courtesan, writes a daily post on her blog (oh if only I were as disciplined as she!).

McNeill is the mistress of logical argument, advocate for sex worker rights and a colourful commentator on all things carnal.

If it has to do with sex and love, McNeill has likely blogged about it.

I have spent a lifetime not fitting in (more on that: Here's To Being A Crazy One. A Misfit. A Rebel. And A Square Peg In A Round Hole.)

I live in a space many would not dare to go. And I am much less "out there" than others.

I look around me I see women rebels and adventurers, changemakers and hellraisers.

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the Women's Liberation Movement  in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In 2005, Steinem worked alongside Robin Morgan and Jane Fonda to co-found the Women's Media Center.