Madame (Salacious Players' Club, #6)

by Sara Cate

You grew up in a world that conditioned you to believe that men are more sex-driven than women and that any woman who enjoys and values sex is a whore, slut, et cetera. So, our first lesson is going to show you what an empowered, sexual woman looks like.”

“The first step in understanding dominance is harnessing the confidence to demand what you want and knowing it’s your right to take it. Yes, it sounds selfish. It’s supposed to be.”

“Because we all want the same thing—to feel safe, satisfied, and seen.

If you’re going to be a people pleaser, then the first person you need to please is yourself.

you won’t know for sure someone is right for you until you discover yourself first.”

“Being a mother is very hard,” I say. “It literally requires more than you have to give. It’s fulfilling, but it’s also exhausting. And no matter how hard you try, you inevitably lose a sense of yourself along the way.”

How simple children are. Why can’t adults be like this? Apologize. Love. Be happy. Like it’s all that easy. I wish it were.

But instead, we have to deal with things like insecurity, fear, and trauma that seem to make simple things like love and forgiveness impossible.

Just because they spend their days at home with kids and cartoons doesn’t mean they don’t have the same dirty, kinky desires the rest of us do.”