Jade

“Categorically, women with Mother Hunger struggle with both food and relationships. I have never seen one problem without the other. It’s just a matter of which hurts more. From early nurturance experiences, food and love become linked in implicit memory.”
― Kelly McDaniel, Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

“Sometimes women compensate for misogyny by behaving like those in power—they offend someone more vulnerable.”
― Kelly McDaniel, Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

“It was a small kindness you did,” they said. “But you and I are both small creatures”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“She was still mine, maybe more now that I knew it had been a choice. My longing for her rearranged itself in my chest. It felt like a new-hatched thing, wet-feathered but fierce. I set my jaw and let it be the lifeline that would pull me from the quicksand of this hot, close room, the smell of dust and the night crawling over the windows.”
― Melissa Albert, Because I'm Melissa Thats Why: Personalized Name Journal Writing Notebook For Girls and Women