“Ask yourself on a daily basis, “Am I doing this to please someone else, or because I really want to do this?”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Children of narcissistic parents tend to become fluent in saying “sorry” – even for just their very existence. It’s because they’ve been taught by their parents that they are a burden.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes, we’re so consumed with how others perceive us that we forget to honor how we feel about them.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“At every turn, women are taught that how someone reacts to them does more to establish their goodness and worth than anything they themselves might feel.”— Lili Loofbourow, theweek.com
“One side effect of teaching one gender to outsource its pleasure to a third party (and endure a lot of discomfort in the process) is that they're going to be poor analysts of their own discomfort, which they have been persistently taught to ignore.”— Lili Loofbourow, theweek.com
“This is also how women are taught to be good hosts. To subordinate their desires to those of others. To avoid confrontation.”— Lili Loofbourow, theweek.com