I love turning my daughter on to old movies..

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard..

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive..

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexu….

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood..

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite..

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quot….

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead..

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom..

Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the most pornographic….

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to th….

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if thei….

"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely….

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust sw….

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to..

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read..

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before..

People who love science fiction really do love sex..

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good..

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it..