Sam’s Reviews > Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation > Status Update

"According to the expectations hardwired by decades and decades of relentless stereotyping, lesbians are supposed to move in together on their second date at the latest. Of all my exes before Sam, I had lived with exactly zero of them, because they had, correctly, assessed me as unsuitable for cohabitation. My preferred term is: unlivable with-able."

“At Smithton Country Club, women couldn’t join as members—we were ‘associates,’ which meant that we could only play on weekends if we teed off early enough so as not to interrupt the men’s competition.”

“What I didn’t understand until much later in life was that boys changed their behavior around me because they could not sexualize me, and that was confusing to them.”

"With no reason to doubt her autonomy, I began to talk a lot to 'Footsie,' as I came to know my sister's disembodied foot."

"Why would you manicure real grass to make it look fake? Answer: Garden variety anxiety. That's a little joke."