Narcissistic Mother Quote by Karyl McBride

“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation under a…

— Victoria Secunda

“past my own feelings of guilt and insecurity, I feel grateful. These parents—mostly mothers—constitute a large amount of”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt is a…

— Sue Townsend

“There came a time in my life when I had to admit to myself that I have some very clear narcissistic tendencies. Ironically, it…

— Beverly Engel

“I began for the first time to really understand the loss my adoptive mother must have felt from not having her own child. I…

— Zara Phillips

“When children have shame-based parents, they identify with them. This is the first step in the child’s internalizing shame because the children carry their…

— John Bradshaw

“No one taps her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your…

— Tama Kieves

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Narcissists expect you to be fit and healthy because the very reason for having children was so that they would be their supporters and…

— Diana Macey

“Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into…

— Dani Shapiro

“It is a terrible thing to feel sorry for one’s mother or indeed father. And it’s an additionally awful thing to feel this and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“A daughter whose mother chose to leave her or was incapable of mothering may feel like a member of the emotional underclass, like a…

— Hope Edelman