“What if the opposite of good wasn't bad? What if the opposite of good was real?” — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire. — Claire Dederer Desire Copy Share Image
The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself. — Claire Dederer Nature Copy Share Image
I wish I would have been more of a maker. I wish I would have been more of a writer. I wish… — Claire Dederer Boys Copy Share Image
The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do… — Claire Dederer Book Copy Share Image
“No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
“If you’re not a good cook by the time you’re our age it’s a serious character defect, and it means something bad,… — Claire Dederer Food Copy Share Image
Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used… — Claire Dederer Children Copy Share Image
“I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in… — Claire Dederer Book Copy Share Image
“Jonathan's voice was quiet now. "Thank you for sharing this evening with me. In yoga, we say 'Namaste,' which means 'I bow… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved… — Claire Dederer Boys Copy Share Image
“Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the… — Claire Dederer Books Copy Share Image
“Reality is an easy commodity in the Front Range. There's weather, and there are animals that are thinking about eating you, and… — Claire Dederer Beauty Copy Share Image
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot -… — Claire Dederer Kids Copy Share Image
I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy… — Claire Dederer Desire Copy Share Image
“I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: "Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling… — Claire Dederer Fear Copy Share Image
“Food was wearisome. We’d been dealing with food, planning it buying it growing it storing it cooking it serving it, for years,… — Claire Dederer Food Copy Share Image
