There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
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.
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.
When a young woman discovers her power, both sexual and intellectual, she unleashes her own voice, her righteousness. The first things she has to jettison are the Devil and any religious representation of her gender as stained or subservient. She’s just naturally going to be attracted to Goddesses or witches or, as in my case, a scientific understanding of the body and a historical view of sexual politics.
Sexual creativity is a mystery that will never be solved by commercialism.
Let’s face it, we can’t shop for intelligence, creativity, or freedom.
It didn’t occur to me that they would never take my gender and age seriously – that as long as I was a young woman, they projected their sexual feelings on me, regardless of what I did.