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… — Claire Dederer 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 thing I cared most about - books - but basically were moron-level elsewhere.” — 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
