Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Sallie Tisdale

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sallie Tisdale, is an American writer and essayist whose work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Tricycle, among other magazines. She is the author of ten books, and winner of numerous literary awards. Earning a nursing degree in 1983 and writing in her off-hours from medical practice, her first book was on medical miracles (1986), her second on day to day life in a nursing home (1987), which was followed that year by an essay in Harper's on working in an abortion clinic. Tisdale currently teaches part-time in the writing program at Portland State University.

American - Author | Born: 1957

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Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

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Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

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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.

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You don't write. You get out of the way.

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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.

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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.

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It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

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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.

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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.

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How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

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Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Sallie Tisdale

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