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.

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.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

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.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

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

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