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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/i-carefully-lifted-out-of-the-pose-and-spoke-up-uh-fran-when-i-m/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/drinking-and-taking-drugs-i-think-there-was-also-a-sort-of-druggie-or/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

> [The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/the-patchwork-nature-of-the-forms-are-a-reflection-of-sexuality-itself/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

> [“I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/i-had-discovered-something-there-was-a-pleasure-in-becoming-something/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/the-book-love-and-trouble-is-asserting-that-sexuality-lives-inside-us/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/i-wish-i-would-have-been-more-of-a-maker-i-wish-i-would-have-been/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/i-ve-been-asked-several-times-since-the-book-love-and-trouble-came/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

> [“No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/no-matter-where-you-go-in-the-world-a-german-will-have-beaten-you/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/drinking-and-drugging-make-it-so-your-reality-flies-away-from-you/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

> [“Food was wearisome. We’d been dealing with food, planning it buying it growing it storing it cooking it serving it, for years, for decades…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/food-was-wearisome-we-d-been-dealing-with-food-planning-it-buying-it/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

> [Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/your-sexuality-belongs-to-you-and-think-about-your-own-desire/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/when-i-was-really-sad-i-would-be-like-a-little-kid-wiggling-a-loose/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/i-think-that-what-i-knew-as-a-teenager-and-what-i-rediscovered-in-my/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

> [“Reality is an easy commodity in the Front Range. There's weather, and there are animals that are thinking about eating you, and there's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/reality-is-an-easy-commodity-in-the-front-range-there-s-weather-and/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/i-carefully-lifted-out-of-the-pose-and-spoke-up-uh-fran-when-i-m/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

> [“Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-dederer/yoga-is-just-gymnastics-for-uncoordinated-people/)

[Claire Dederer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-dederer/)

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