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

Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the most pornographic imagination. But photographs dare to be real. No matter how contrived or constructed they are, there's that damn body staring you in the face.

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.

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.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.