"Sensuality has to be tended like a campfire; it needs attention. What helps attend it is doing the things you love to do, the things that nourish you, that fuel the fire."

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."

"Writing comes from a place of desire. I love anticipation, desire, foreplay, the buildup."

"I’m not interested in books and movies about young people having sex."

"It is important for us and also for younger women to encourage the idea that aging is a beautiful part of life. I do think society as a whole ignores older women, puts us in a non-sexual box, and that sexual aspect of aging is something we are pioneering."

"You hear about writer’s block; you don’t read about the pleasure and joy of writing. You don’t hear what it’s like to be heard and to hear other women’s voices. How amazing! Time stands still for me in the joy of writing erotica and the immersion into writing."

"One of the things we don’t any of us have is enough stories to model ourselves on. Our aunts, our mothers did not show us what being sexually active later in life looked like."