“Colorful, passionate, and exciting, these men lit up the landscape of her everyday life, sweeping Sarah up into a land of romantic dreams. But they undermined her sense of self--suddenly everything revolved around them. And they took her on an emotional roller coaster. Increasingly anxious, she felt…”— Diane Dreher, psychologytoday.com
“Sarah was always falling for narcissists. With their magnetic charm and emotional intensity, they made other men pale by comparison. There was Ned, the aspiring actor, with his flashing eyes and effusive flattery, so skilled at performing that she failed to see the cold reality beneath the surface.…”— Diane Dreher, psychologytoday.com
“Narcissistic rage occurs when that core instability is threatened and furthermore threatened to destabilize them even further.”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“And just as Hamlet’s mother said, “the lady doth protest too much,” “the narcissist doth brag, scorn, talk down, primp and belittle too much” in order to continually prove to the world and themselves that they are larger than life. This is not to increase their self-esteem as much as it is to contin…”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“What is at the core of narcissists is not what is often referred to as low self-esteem. I don’t think that is accurate, but something that the people around them say to themselves to mollify their own rage at the narcissist, i.e. 'Oh, they only act that way, because they lack self-esteem.' What is r…”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“There is a saying that when you’re a hammer the world looks like a nail. When you’re a narcissist, the world looks like it should approve, adore, agree and obey you. Anything less than that feels like an assault and because of that a narcissist feels justified in raging back at it.”— Mark Goulston, psychologytoday.com
“I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry stopped making an effort to find out what female audiences wanted to see and what stories we wanted to tell.”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.com
“According to a recent study, between 2007 and 2016, only 4 percent of directors were female and 80 percent of those got the chance to make only one film. In 2016, another study found, only 27 percent of words spoken in the biggest movies were spoken by women. And people wonder why you didn’t hear ou…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.com