Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

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

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

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

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

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