I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.
You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.
Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.
Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.
I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.
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.
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.
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it’s so hard to be read.
It’s not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.
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 got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.
Behind every erotic condemnation there’s a burning hypocrite.
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.
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 swept the literary world.
I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.
I love turning my daughter on to old movies.
There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
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.