I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness.
I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it … - Claire Dederer
I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it …
- Claire Dederer
Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child. - Claire Dederer
Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child.
I wish I would have been more of a maker. I wish I would have been more of a writer. I wish I would have not subsumed my will to every boy I had a pa… - Claire Dederer
I wish I would have been more of a maker. I wish I would have been more of a writer. I wish I would have not subsumed my will to every boy I had a pa…
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way I was before. I do feel like… - Claire Dederer
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way I was before. I do feel like…
Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved that feeling as a kid. For me, th… - Claire Dederer
Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved that feeling as a kid. For me, th…
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadd… - Claire Dederer
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadd…
Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire. - Claire Dederer
Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.
I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight f… - Claire Dederer
I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight f…
The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms refl… - Claire Dederer
The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms refl…
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