The Ghosts That Haunt Women – And the Jewels That Transform Them - Nicole Daedone
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The Ghosts That Haunt Women – And the Jewels That Transform Them - Nicole Daedone
When a woman has a collapsing mother construct within her psyche and/or her culture, she is wobbly about her worth. She may feel that choices between fulfilling outer demands and the demands of soul are life-and-death issues. She may feel like a tormented outsider who belongs nowhere—which is relatively normal for the exile—but what is not normal
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The answer is an unequivocal yes. So why, if this is all so and too true, do women keep trying to bend and fold themselves into shapes that are not theirs? I must say, from years of clinical observation of this problem, that most of the time it is not because of deep-seated masochism or a malignant dedication to self-destruction or anything of that
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angela carter once wrote that a woman’s body is a haunted house. a place built upon centuries of occupation, inscribed with histories not always her own. to live in it is to dwell among echoes: of desire and discipline, inheritance and intrusion, tenderness and trespass.