Children Quote by Claire Dederer

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

— Rick Allen

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's…

— Douglas Coupland

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if…

— Anonymous

I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted…

— Melissa Febos

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter.…

— Tim Gunn

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

For me, having a gender identity that was different from my sex assigned at birth and that wasn't seen by society felt like a…

— Sarah McBride

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in…

— Hugh Hefner

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not…

— Natalie Cole

I was very naughty during my childhood.

— Shatrughan Sinha

When I got into my early 20s, I was going to bed one nightI was still drinking, still using drugs, and probably was drunk…

— Randy Travis

Even thinking back to the age of ten, I found myself more interested in sex than the other children I knew. When I saw…

— Dian Hanson