The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.