Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

A Memoir by Nicole Daedone

What happens when a woman dares to tell the truth, not just the facts, but the erotic, dangerous, inconvenient truth?

In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, Nicole Daedone offers a radical memoir unlike any other. A soul-laid-bare journey through grief, desire, taboo, and awakening. From the back alleys of San Francisco’s psychedelic underground to the intimate rituals of an Orgasm Monastery, Daedone chronicles her path from academic disillusionment to spiritual rebellion, turning poison into medicine.

This is a story of ignition, of a woman’s liberation.

Daedone dismantles the narratives that have silenced women for generations. The ones that say our sexuality is shameful, our anger is too much, our hunger is dangerous. With prose that is both lyrical and unflinching, she writes of longing, loss, sisterhood, and the feminine intelligence of the body. She tells the story no one wants a woman to tell: the one where she doesn’t apologize, doesn’t conform, doesn’t shrink.

This book is a reckoning. With the culture, the past, and the parts of ourselves we've been taught to hide. It’s also an invitation: to feel everything, want with full permission and reclaim the raw, holy power of female eros.

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things is the memoir of this era. It’s a map. For any woman who has ever been called too much—or not enough—this book is a torch in the dark.