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

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

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

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

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.

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.