Cassie

“Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Pleasure

“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Pleasure

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer, the mixed-blood, the violated-turning to the written page with a relentless passion, a drive to avenge their own silence, invisibility, and erasure as living, innately expressive human beings.”
― Cherrie Moraga