Katherine

“As a child, if essential elements of maternal nurturance and protection were missing, you didn’t stop loving your mother—you simply didn’t learn to love yourself.”
― Kelly McDaniel, Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

“True happiness can only come from being of loving service to others, especially those in the last throes of life's journey.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

“Fear is when we turn up the volume on
everything that might go wrong
and then allow it to speak louder than our courage.”
― Rudy Francisco, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

“Mothers carrying their own victimization pass it on to their daughters. Self-loathing and contempt corrupt the mother–daughter bond as hatred of women is shared. “A mother’s victimization does not merely humiliate her, it mutilates her daughter, who watches her for clues as to what it means to be a woman. Like the traditional foot-bound Chinese woman, she passes on her affliction. The mother’s self-hatred and low expectations are binding rags for the psyche of the daughter.”
― Kelly McDaniel, Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance