“Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.”

“Why is it women have to bring all this angst into sex? We should be more like men. In. Out. Over. Next.”

“Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do--like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.”

“As women, do we have the same rights as men to enjoy sex? How many of us would say yes, we do have a right, we have a equal right to enjoy sex, and if our husbands don't satisfy us, then we have a right to seek satisfaction elsewhere.”

“Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.”

“we can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens!”