I'm Really Quite Bad At Coming Up

Having The Freedom To Read And The Freedom To Choose Is One Of The Best Gifts My Parents Ever Gave Me.

My Mother Was My Greatest Fan.

I Think We Made Out [sexuality Changing]. I Think That's Really Great, And We Didn't Jump Into Intercourse. And There Were No Blow Jobs.

Heavy Petting, That Was Fun! That Was Good. And Frankly, You Know I Wish Kids Would Go Back To It. It's Very Satisfying. And It's Not As Scary. So Many Girls, You Know This. I Mean They Are Having What We Call Sex. Right? They're Having Intercourse. They Don't Want To, They Don't Get Anything Out Of It.

If No One Speaks Out For [young Readers], If They Don’t Speak Out For Themselves, All They’ll Get For Required Reading Will Be The Most Bland Books Available. Instead Of Finding The Information They Need At The Library, Instead Of Finding Novels That Illuminate Life, They Will Find Only Those Materials To Which Nobody Could Possibly Object... In This Age Of Censorship I Mourn The Loss Of Books That Will Never Be Written, I Mourn The Voices That Will Be Silenced — Writers’ Voices, Teachers’ Voices, Students’ Voices — And All Because Of Fear.