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

I’m like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

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

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

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

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

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 their sexual self-knowledge.

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.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

I’m writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

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 sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

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

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

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don’t have a sense of being in the majority.

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 their name was associated with me.

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

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn’t exist.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

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

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.