Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.

Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty weird.

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.