Lian Laya
@lianlaya222
notes
Lian Laya
@lianlaya222
notes
Principles and
develop your own Good Mother inside.
mother substitutes, and best friends.
woman remembers that she can be both fierce and generous at the same time.
larger-than-life archetype of the Good Mother.
Every new mother begins as a child-mother. A child-mother is old enough to have babies and has good instincts in the right direction, but she needs the mothering of an older woman or women who essentially prompt, encourage, and support her in her mothering of her children.
My mother and I each soon grew two faces: one for my father and the rest of the world, and one for us when we found ourselves alone with each other.