Quotes by Claire Dederer - Page 1

Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.
Claire Dederer / Writer
Desire
Sexuality
Thinking
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The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.
Claire Dederer / Writer
Reflection
Sexuality
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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 / Writer
Children
Drinking
Thinking
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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 reflect that.
Claire Dederer / Writer
Book
Culture
People
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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 passing fancy about. That's the part that is horrifying.
Claire Dederer / Writer
Boys
Wish
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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.
Claire Dederer / Writer
Sadness
Teenager
Thinking
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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 it was a season in hell that I passed through. But now I'm in despair and sad and confused every day because of our political situation. So the question is: Is it harder or easier to be sad with a reason?
Claire Dederer / Writer
Book
Confused
Political
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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 sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.
Claire Dederer / Writer
Kids
Thinking
Touching
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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, the strongest way to have that feeling was love and sex. Not only did I enjoy it - that feeling of being transported - but because I was so boy-identified, first as a tomboy and then as a girl who liked to sleep with boys.
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Girl
Drinking
Sleep
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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 feeling.-Fran was adjusting someone across the room. She had a way of looking like a thoughtful seamstress when she made adjustments: an inch let out here, a seam straightened there, and everything would be just right. She might as well have had pins tucked between her lips and a tape measure around her neck. Without missing a beat or looking up she said, Oh, that's fear. Try the pose again.-Fear. I hadn't even known it was there.
Claire Dederer / Writer
Fear
Scary
Thoughtful
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