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‘Motherhood is an obliteration of the self,’
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Faye Resnick said that Nicole tried desperately, but she was never able to gain control of her life. This is the saddest thing, on par with the sadness of her death. A woman who was never really able to live her own life — she was seduced by a charismatic narcissist at age 17, and everything thenceforth was part of him. She told Resnick, “I was... See more
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The Women Who Refused to Choose Between Mothering and Artmaking
Jordan Troellerthereader.mitpress.mit.edu
She was fascinated with women who martyred themselves. But then, to look at it a different way, she was fascinated with women who gave themselves over to revolutions.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
One self disappeared, and a new, more dependent self emerged.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
In the foster-care world, “permanency” is a big buzzword. The motto is “One caring adult—that’s all you need.” However, it is natural for teenagers to pull away from adults, and Griffin remarks that the best form of permanency for teens is a steady group of friends—which the program is designed to provide.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The need for romantic love is thus imagined as so deeply entrenched in the structures of feminine subjectivity that women desire nothing so much as to be safely ensconced in the institutions, marriage and family, that will secure it. As de Beauvoir describes the woman in search of love and marriage, “she chooses to want her enslavement so ardently... See more