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

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

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.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

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

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

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