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

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

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.

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

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