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

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.

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

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

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

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

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

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

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

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

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

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

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

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

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

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

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.