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

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

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

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

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

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

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.