Ann Rice > Quotes

“PLAYBOY: You are a feminist and yet you have written explicit sexual fantasies. How do you reconcile those two things?

ANN RICE: I believe absolutely in the right of women to fantasize what they want to fantasize, to read what they want to read. I would go to the Supreme Court to fight for the right of a little woman in a trailer park to read pornography - write it, if she wants to. I think one of the worst turns feminism took was its puritanical turn, where it tried to tell women what was politically correct sexually. I mean, we had that for thousands of years. I got that from the nuns at school: what you were supposed to feel as a temple of the Holy Ghost, what you were supposed to allow. And to hear the feminists then telling me that having masochistic fantasies or rape fantasies just isn't politically correct, I just thought, Oh bullshit, you're not going to come in and politicize my imagination.”
― Ann Rice

“All right, listen to me!" I hissed. I could control this no longer. "We are going out. But we shall do it like proper vampires, do you hear! There are one thousand people in the church and we are going to scare them to death.”
― Ann Rice, Vittorio The Vampire, The Vampire Lastat, Interview with The Vampire, The Vampire Armand, Queen of the Damned, Merrick, The Witching Hour, Blood Canticle, The Mummy, Memnoch the Devil, Taltos