Status Updates From Girlhood

this book has been nothing that I expected but in a good way

the unconditional love of a mother… probably this chapter was the most painful to read

"Now those moments seem proof that self-love is an instinct, as animal as any other function of the self. The ferocity of my affection could not be erased, only suppressed under total vigilance. My self-hatred was not self-generated. It was an expression of the environment outside of my body, which, it eventually turned out, I could change." (111)

…a condition of never being correct, because being is incorrect. Virtue lies only in the interminable act of erasing yourself. (p. 107)

…self-love is an instinct, as animal as any other function of the self. The ferocity of my affection could not be erased, only suppressed under total vigilance. (p. 111)

However painful, we often cherish our own self-hatreds, mistake them as intrinsic to our survival. (p. 123)