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“Whatever role we are loved for in our family, we will continue to enact it, despite the toll it takes.”
― Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Four Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

“It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.”
― tamara ireland stone, Time After Time

“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Man looks on woman from his vantage point and reduces her to a being that is not for-itself but for-him.”
― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence