Katherine

“Dear whoever you are,

on the day we finally meet,
I imagine there will be
static electricity in your voice,
Your name will be the sheet music
to a song I've been trying to play by ear,

and we will fall into each other
like two stars that are tired of the sky.”
― Rudy Francisco, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

“Dreams are windows into the soul, and without fail, women who suffer a lack of maternal protection have nightmarish sleep patterns and dreams.”
― Kelly McDaniel, Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

“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

“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