Lisa Taddeo

I can tell you a lot about sex with a man to whom you are not attracted. It becomes all about your own performance, your own body and how it looks on the outside, the way it moves above this man who, for you, is only a spectator.

He likened his relationship with me to Icarus. He was Icarus and I was the sun. Lines like these, which I wholly believed and still do, made me sick to my stomach. What kind of a girl wants to be a sun over a country she doesn’t even want to visit.

I’ve been judged not only by the things I’ve done unto others but, cruelly, by the things that have happened to me.

When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced.

People don’t want to know that many bad things can happen to one person or around one person.

The older the man, the more my specialty. I knew that when I met God one day it would go well.

When I see you in my dreams you are wearing all the dresses I ever wanted.

The desire to be beautiful had been replaced by the lowly fear of looking ugly.

anything new, for a man, can be an erotic discovery.

If you cook for a man, and you cook very well, as I did, they will think you belong to them.