Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
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
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.