“When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me. They loved how eager I was to please them, how much I wanted them to think well of me. They would wink at me, and find me precocious. I would encounter them at church, and at family gatherings, and as friends of my friends' parents. They were the husbands of my dance instructors, or my science or history teachers.” MenGrowing UpMale Centric Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir
“I read Cynthia's memoir excerpts. Well-written, terse, biting, they centered on the day that her mother committed suicide, when Cynthia was ten years old. I didn't think she'd make much money from it—it was too good, written without an ounce of sentimentality.” WritingMoneyMemoir Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir
“At one point we would have called these affairs consensual, for they were, and were conducted with my vague understanding that they were happening. Now, however, young women have apparently lost all agency in romantic entanglements. Now my husband was abusing his power, never mind that power is the reason they desired him in the first place. Whatever the current state of my marriage may be, I still can't think about it all without my blood boiling. My anger is not so much directed toward the accusations as it is toward the lack of self-regard these women have - the lack of their own confidence. I wish they could see themselves not as little leaves swirled around by the wind of a world that does not belong to them, but as powerful, sexual women interested in engaging in a little bit of danger, a little bit of taboo, a little bit of fun. With the highly objectionable move toward a populist insistence of morality in art, I find this post hoc prudery offensive, as a fellow female.” PowerRiskAgencyConsentTaboo Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir
“Penceredeki bacak bacak üstüne atmış yansımasını görür görmez onunla içli dışlı olmak istemiştim. Önümde baştan aşağı yeni bir dünya açılmıştı sanki. Dünya değilse de dibi olmayan bir kuyu, düşüşün insanı canlandıran hezeyanını dur durak bilmeden deneyimleme hissi.” VladimirTurkce Alintilar Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir
“Soru sormak yoktu, açıktan söylemek yoktu; doğaçlama yorumlar sormak yoktu, açıktan söylemek yoktu; doğaçlama yorumlar ve kafa sallamalarla yürüyordu iletişimin büyük kısmı.” VladimirTurkce Alintilar Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir
“Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden.” VladimirTurkce Alintilar Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir
“Ama bu yaz gözlerim kelimelere odaklanamıyordu adeta. İcat edilmiş dünyalar, kurmacanın bütün uydurmalığı ve çalıntılığı, tüm karakterler... Sundukları her şey nihayetinde çok kıt ve acınası geliyordu. Tarihlere, gerçeklere, sayılara, istatistiklere ihtiyacım vardı. Silahlara yani. İşte burası yaşadığımız dünya ve bu dünyada bunlar oldu.” VladimirTurkce Alintilar Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir
“Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)” VladimirTurkce Alintilar Book:Vladimir Source: Vladimir