“the more puzzling aspects of women’s psychology: the tendency for women to become selfless or voiceless in relationships, to care for others by diminishing themselves, to use their gifts for empathy and relationship to cover over their own feelings and thoughts, and to begin not to know what they want and know.”31 This nurturing role can make women a powerful force for building connections and weaving our social fabric. Yet when relationships falter or fail, girls and women tend to blame themselves. The resulting shame and loneliness are even more acute when women have blurred their sense of
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