Robin Steele

“While I couldn’t have identified a reason for my behavior, even that weekend I could have named the feeling that drove me to the cupboard. Want something else. Something more. Want more.)”
― Susan Burton, Empty

“Far more than I wanted people’s bodies next to mine, I wanted them to be mine. Not in a covetous cosmetic way, like, Oh, I wish I had that supermodel’s flat stomach. I didn’t want parts of bodies. I looked at other people’s bodies and I wanted to inhabit them. I wanted to feel what they did. I wanted to feel the way I once had.”
― Susan Burton, Empty

“Being a woman attracted to another woman was confusing; a constant game of comparison and lust. You never quite knew whether you were jealous of their body or just jealous of the person who got to touch it.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“I don’t need “support.” I need . . . I need . . . It occurs to me that I have no idea how that sentence might end.”
― Jenefer Shute, Life-Size