“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 now. By the time it was our moment to eat, we were sick of the sight… — 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, something ungenerous, about your personality. Sorry to break the news.” — Claire Dederer 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 sex as… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself. — Claire Dederer 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 I had… — Claire Dederer 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 things to… — Claire Dederer 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 I would… — 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 the way… — Claire Dederer 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 a smug… — 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 that feeling… — Claire Dederer 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, for decades… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were… — Claire Dederer 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 of sexual… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
