I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

by Glynnis MacNicol

Je cherche une partenaire de voyage pour 4 jours fin août sur Carcassonne? Are you ready? Musique et gastronomie sont au…”

This trip is costing me approximately $2,000, including airfare. Probably less, when you factor in that meals

Im confused about her math here and why she is low balling it

Her tone cuts through the fog of ecstasy I am in, suggesting I should…be scandalized? Feel shame? At the very least I should be embarrassed. I recognize it immediately as my own voice coming to greet me from other times and places when I’d admonished friends for doing things that deep down I wished I was doing. Or even just wished I was capable of doing. I don’t know Sandra’s friend at all, but I understand what she really means is: I’m scared to do the thing you just did, and you doing it made me have to think about that.

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Humility: “having a lowly opinion of oneself; meekness, lowliness, humbleness.” Which no doubt, has been interpreted in a myriad of ways, but to me mostly sounds like just another way to say be quiet. Stop talking. Take up less space. It’s just a hop, skip, and syllable away from humiliation. Which somehow makes me think of all the women who have told me they are too humiliated to be seen eating alone.

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Que la lumière soit! It

Auteur du Deuxième Sexe Écrivain, Philosophe Vécut dans Cette Maison De 1955 à 1986

Proche de Henry James, l’oeuvre d’Edith Wharton met en scène d’un trait à la fois délicat et mordant, la bonne société dont elle est issue.

A friend who was doing research into the history of pornography for women once told me the reason women’s pornography is rarely successful is because the thing women fantasize about most is freedom.

Interesting

How easy it is to get lazy when there is someone else better at the work.

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