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“It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bless her she's trying”

Children Infertility Childfree Childfree Women

Book:How to Fail

Source: How to Fail

“If you treat yourself as high value, it turns out other people are more likely to do so as well.”

Self Esteem Confidence

Author:Elizabeth Day

“She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and broad with a pronounced rump and the mearest hint of a thirty-something pounch, but he appears unaware of his physicality in these moments in way that a woman never would be. A woman, Kate thinks, would be worried about her flabby belly or her wide thighs or the fact that her breasts are more saggy that she'd like and she would assume she was being monitored by the male eyes in the room. Yet Jake treats his body as his own, inhabiting it with confidence. - (Page 277)”

Feminism Feminist

Book:Magpie

Source: Magpie

“Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation”

Failure Oneself Survive Approbation

Book:How to Fail

Source: How to Fail

“If I let Becca back into my life, I wouldn't be as good a friend to Sathnam. I would have less time for him, yes, but it was more than that. Emotional resources can be finite too. My relationship with him would carry less weight because how can he trust me if, in my desperation to accumulate friends and never let them go, I spread my love so thinly, and allow myself to be treated to badly, with so few boundaries, that the act of my friendship itself carried no meaning.”

Book:Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Source: Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

“Friendship is finding the people who were missing and the people that you needed, or maybe sometimes you didn’t know that you needed them. And then they come along and they fill that inexplicable void.”

Book:Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Source: Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict