I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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