Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
By: Pam Houston
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“I’ve always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake."-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
"Several times in my life, I’ve sat with women, friends of mine, who reveal, sometimes shyly, sometimes proudly, bruises of one kind or another, and I know I’ve said, “If it happens one time, leave him,"-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
"And even though I knew in my head there’s nothing a man can do that a woman can’t, I also knew in my heart we can’t help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exactly how a woman feels when she has a baby, or an orgasm, or the reasons why she’ll fight so hard to be loved, a woman can’t know in what way a man satisfies himself, what question he answers for himself, when he looks right at death."-Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
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10. Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
By: Pam Houston
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
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