Sandra

“One inheritance of living under the male gaze for centuries is that heterosexual women often look at other women the way a man would.

Something in the force of it, in the force of all male desire, captivated me. Men did not merely want. Men needed.

Meanwhile, women wait. The more in love they are and the fewer options they have, the longer they wait.

It’s the nuances of desire that hold the truth of who we are at our rawest moments.

We don’t remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can’t forget.

There’s nothing safer than wanting nothing.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women