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A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman’s transformation from college student to professional dominatrix While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts how unchecked... read more
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“I had joked many times about wishing I had a domme of my own in college or at the gym, someone to make me get my life in order. I always knew I could do more to please someone else than myself.”
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That is the gift of taking the long road; you know you’re not missing anything.
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It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s assertion that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
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Real trauma is like a giant hunk of scar tissue that the rest of your life accommodates, grows around. It changes the shape of you, of everything that happens after it.”
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My happiness is the absence of fear that there won’t be enough—enough money, enough power, enough security, enough of a cushion of these things to protect me from the everyday heartbreaks of being human. Heartbreak doesn’t kill you. It changes you.
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This made sense, of course, but it’s hard to accept advice when you never give all the facts.
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Animals know things, and you can see yourself in anything that depends on you.
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It is a form of basking in a kind of femininity that I am opposed to as an ideal, but for better or worse, I think we all fetishize the female body, and intellectualization doesn’t spare anyone the obsession.
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It suddenly wasn’t enough to know, as I always had, that deep down at my core I was a good person, or to simply feel compassion for other creatures; I wanted to be good. Not good, but good. It was a huge relief. I had had no idea how burdensome it was to be a liar and a thief. The weight of my justifications wasn’t felt until it lifted.
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Were I into it, or willing to have sex for money, I would have been less of a curiosity, easily consigned to the diagnosis of broken woman—instantly diminished in intelligence, psychology, morality, or class. I understood this and shared their logic, even as it irritated me in its unexamined narrow-mindedness.
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I have always loved secrets.
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- Melissa Febos (Author)
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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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Publication Date: 2010
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Page Count: 288
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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Publication Date: 2010
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Page Count: 288
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- Dewey: 818.603
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