Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect…

- Sallie Tisdale

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

- Sallie Tisdale

The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex…

- Sallie Tisdale

By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone …

- Sallie Tisdale

Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

- Sallie Tisdale

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

- Sallie Tisdale

Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

- Sallie Tisdale

But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny…

- Sallie Tisdale

Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, wh…

- Sallie Tisdale