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.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

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

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!

Seeing lesbian photography is just the tip of my radicalized clitoris. I have modeled for, commissioned, published, and fought for these pictures, and answered threats against them. I've seen the feminist movement bring these pictures to life, and I've seen that same movement try to suppress the liberating results.

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