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Jill Mellinger
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Worthy
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Many of us, as women, to one degree or another, don’t recognize the insidious ways we are made to feel unworthy.
“You’ll recognize those men, the ones inclined to their dark side, because they’ll expect you to carry their load. They’ll smother your anger with their pain, they’ll make you doubt yourself, and they’ll tell you they love you the whole time.”
― The Quarry Girls
― The Quarry Girls
“We have not, for instance, succeeded in avoiding dudes who don’t notice we’re having a bad time, or notice but don’t seem to care, or pretend to care but actually don’t. We continue to deal with guys who cross our boundaries in some way, transforming bad sex (or even good sex) into something shitty and murky and scary.”
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
“We’ve got to learn to sleep with people because WE want them, not because THEY want us,” she said. “Not to prove anything to them, not to make them feel better about their masculinity, not out of weakness or inability to say no, but simply because we WANT to.”
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
― Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
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