Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

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.

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

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

The planet is littered with irresponsible gods.

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

I see nothing to fear in inner space.