Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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