The Beheaded Goddess Quotes

“In my father's house, everything and everyone was a reflection of him. He dominated in terms of dictates, rules, laws, and ways of being. My mother went along with him as she struggled with her own abandonment issues, identifying with the orphan archetype and a childlike self-image.”
― Selma Nemer, The Beheaded Goddess: Daughters of Narcissistic Fathers

“The daughter's separation reenacts the fractured mothering the narcissistic father received and he again is left empty.”
― Selma Nemer, The Beheaded Goddess: Daughters of Narcissistic Fathers