Katherine

“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

“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

“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

“If you go toward relationships, you may be drawn to avoidant partners or friends, because they won’t threaten your unconscious intimacy threshold. For you, avoidant partners and friends are better than people who suffocate you.”
― Kelly McDaniel, Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance