Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives. Sallie Tisdale More Quotes by Sallie Tisdale More Quotes From Sallie Tisdale The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives. Sallie Tisdale cells real sex Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings. Sallie Tisdale issues sex people Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other. Sallie Tisdale lava littles attention By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places. Sallie Tisdale emotional letting-go moving It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise. Sallie Tisdale punishment peculiar want Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope. Sallie Tisdale games loss sex You don't write. You get out of the way. Sallie Tisdale writing way How I became a better writer was that I kept writing. Sallie Tisdale writing fun But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside. Sallie Tisdale abortion hands blood
