Getting Off Quotes

“Somehow the only way to mask my insecurity was to overpower it with sex.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

“You might not know in this moment how you'll ever look into the mirror and see someone worthy of love, but you can start with a dream for it, a tiny dot of desire, which might just turn into action.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

“I knew what I wanted, and I couldn't wait to say it. Look at me, boys. I'm a girl, and I am sexual. I'm a girl, and I have desires. I'm a girl, and I am proud. Look at me looking at you.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

“The moment you are willing to change, it is remarkable how the Universe begins to help you. It brings you what you need.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

“I felt more like Sylvia Plath or T.S. Eliot, an expat whose real mission was to escape.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

“Men were selfish pricks. And the only way to prevent one from stealing my dignity again was to break him before he had a chance to break me.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

“My adolescent years were convoluted with ideas that chaos was good, that depression meant you were a creative person. My heroes were Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Nancy Spungen. Sylvia fucking Plath… playing Russian roulette with various dicks to make a point that I just didn’t fucking care. I was a mess. I was interesting.”
― Erica Garza, Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction