When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read. (February 1996, "We Are Not Monsters: It's Time To Talk About Sex," University of Maine at Farmington)

"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family. And it gave me a source of joy. It told me that being a lesbian was not a crime or a sin, that I could be happy, and that I could do something of use." (San Francisco Focus, December 23, 1996)