Jenn Ashworth > Quotes

“For others, I suspect the vehement dislike of tattoos [on women] is really a fear of women's skin. When a woman makes her own mark on it, she isn't quite as available to receive whatever fantasies you might want to project on to her. If skin is a screen, and a woman writes on it, she is telling the world (or even just herself) that her own standards of attractiveness are more important to her than the standards of anyone else who might cross her path. She is taking ownership. - from "Painted ladies: why women get tattoos" @theguardian.co.uk”
― Jenn Ashworth

“...and I was so determined that it could not be my fault because I couldn't bear anything more on my conscience,”
― Jenn Ashworth, Ghosted

“is a habit of mine, I see, to weaponise my hurt, then get furious when the shrapnel I throw out doesn’t garner me any comfort.”
― Jenn Ashworth, Ghosted

“had done a lot of crying over those past few months but the conclusion I had come to was that there was a difference between self-pity and grief.”
― Jenn Ashworth, Ghosted

“I think I wanted her to be angry with me. You must understand I felt guilty all the time then. I deserved, according to my own estimation, all the care and coddling and pity there was in the world. But there was never enough available. People being angry at me was the second best thing and provided a relief of its own: proof that I really was as terrible as I felt.”
― Jenn Ashworth, Ghosted