You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.