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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.
- Ballerina
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020