“In retrospect, I didnt really want to be a slut. What I wanted and needed was a therapist who would consent to fucking me, but I doubted my parents insurance would have covered that. I had a lot to...”

“If you arent ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can...”

“People were dumped all the time and their tears did not swallow dry land.”

“I know my father blamed himself, since he is the one who discovered me pawing through his pornography in the basement as a child. Even then, I marveled at the strangeness of the women in the magazi...”

“As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in the history of colleges who failed to arouse the interest of the campus queers immediately upon ...”

“In retrospect, I didn’t really want to be a slut. What I wanted and needed was a therapist who would consent to fucking me, but I doubted my parents’ insurance would have covered that. I had a lot ...”

“Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer is a cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer that has yet to arrive, that is on the...”

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

“It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other. Those sexless fixtures of high school.”

“I'll never be the size that has single digits and my thighs will always touch when I walk but I'm ok with that.”

“Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.”

“Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.”

“The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and...”

“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.”