Home / Authors / Sallie Tisdale Books

Sallie Tisdale

Sallie Tisdale Books

Author

Sallie Tisdale is an American author born in 1957. Her works span across various fields, including literature, history, and religion. Tisdale is known for her profound insights and elegant prose, often exploring deep themes of human existence in her writing.

Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body...

A source page for quotes linked to Sallie Tisdale.

0 quotes

Related Quotes

“Even the ways we don’t eat are based in class. The middle class don’t eat in support groups. The poor can’t afford not to eat at all. The rich hire someone to not eat with them in private.”

Book:Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

Source: Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

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

Joy Games Sex Loss Weapons Enlightenment Toys Trance

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“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.”

Feels Real Culture Sex Space Vision Our Lives Strange Color Normal Everyday Cells Fragments Stains Space Between Leaks Lifeless Neurons

Author:Sallie Tisdale

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

Mean Sex Primaries Inner Life

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“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.”

People Feelings Sex Issues Importance Sexuality Avoiding Disrespect

Author:Sallie Tisdale

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

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“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.”

Should Long I Can Whole Body Might Moving Sides Space Rooms Emotional Terrible Letting Go Should Have Whole Life Pursuit Distraction Long Life Elusive Dieting Tracking

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“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.”

Humans Littles Enough Bigs Young Turns Attention Concern Species Cracks Cricket Small Things Lava Small Places Mongoose

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“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.”

Looks Hands Blood Arms Tiny Abortion Swim Parallels Spine Ribs Knobs Blood Clots

Author:Sallie Tisdale

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

Author:Sallie Tisdale

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

Knows Want Punishment Peculiar Things Change

Author:Sallie Tisdale

About the Author

Born: 1957
Known for: Author
Quotes: 11

Related Topics

Sex Space Writing Abortion Arms Attention Avoiding Bigs Blood Blood Clots

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and SoulRelated source material

Similar Authors

Suzanne MooreBrowse related quotes
Brad WilkersonBrowse related quotes
Rachel Kramer BusselBrowse related quotes
Sue JohansonBrowse related quotes
Evelyn LayeBrowse related quotes
Telly SavalasBrowse related quotes
Martha RothBrowse related quotes
Chester BrownBrowse related quotes
Anne Fausto-SterlingBrowse related quotes
Betty DodsonBrowse related quotes