Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers' revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

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

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

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.

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.

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

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

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

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

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

The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies.

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.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

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

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 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.