Being a dominatrix, sticking my foot up people's asses for money, necessitated that I divorce myself from any sort of objective perspective on what I was doing. In order to think about things as a writer you have to objectify your experience. I couldn't have been enacting that experience if I was objectifying it.
I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anyth… - Melissa Febos
I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anyth…
- Melissa Febos
Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of lov… - Melissa Febos
Anyone who makes a life of what they love is a hero to me, and it's important for those people to be visible in every kind of life, every kind of lov…
I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time. I hear it so often … - Melissa Febos
I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time. I hear it so often …
Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, b… - Melissa Febos
Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, b…
I do believe that we all have these stories inside of us, these scars that we compulsive worry as we do wounds, and that drive for redemption, to cha… - Melissa Febos
I do believe that we all have these stories inside of us, these scars that we compulsive worry as we do wounds, and that drive for redemption, to cha…
Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or… - Melissa Febos
Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or…
I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts … - Melissa Febos
I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts …
I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them. - Melissa Febos
I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them.
It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself. - Melissa Febos
It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.
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