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Whatever was going on between my parents, I suppose that my fantasy of self-sufficiency, my heavy investment in my own mind, is also a kind of narcissistic cathexis.
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For anyone but the landed gentry to refer to a room in their house as "the library" might seem affected. But there really was no other word for it."
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My mother must have bathed me hundreds of times. But it's my father rinsing me off with the purple metal cup that I remember most clearly. The suffusion of warmth as the hot water sluiced over me... ...the sudden, unbearable cold of its absence.
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Alison Bechdel |
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Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch.
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Alison Bechdel |
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The most sturdy nouns fell to faint approximations under my pen.
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Alison Bechdel |
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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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Alison Bechdel |
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In his 1964 talk on feminism, Winnicott says something he's been saying all along. "...We find that the trouble is not so much that everyone was inside and then born, but that at the very beginning everyone was on a woman." Winnicott sees this dependence as the root of misogyny--though he never uses that word. Perhaps, like Woolf with "feminism," he felt plain language was more persuasive. "The awkward fact remains, for men and women, tha..
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feminism
relationships
family
misogyny
parents
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