A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.
Melissa FebosBeing celibate was so wonderful. It taught me a lot about love, but even more about my own self outside of love. I'd never met myself out of love before, really.
Melissa FebosI absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time. I hear it so often from my students and friends. As if it doesn't take rigorous craft, and intellectual acuity to write a slammin' book of any kind. But perhaps, especially, about the body.
Melissa FebosThe craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.
Melissa Febos