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She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed rash and sweeping to her, dazzling but presumptuous. She had to try to see herself, then, as somebody who could be /made happy/. The whole worrying, striving, complicated bundle of her — was that something that could just be picked up and /made happy/?

I always talk about love but I’ve seen a life where I can live without it, where I can eat with my hands, make the whole bed, leave the light on for myself.

It’s amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other, the way we talk about each other. To love each other. You know it starts off with self-love. We have to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.And the media from day one, from when you were little ass kids, they teach you not to love yourself. They take something out of you and they try to sell it back to you… Something that you’ve been fighting for your entire life that’s taken from you as a child. That you always had inside of you. That’s self-love.That’s why I love you so much, cause as everybody knows, I love me so much.The greatest gift you have is your now…you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and the past is the past.

If you are free to be yourself, You would love to be yourself.

Jeanette Winterson

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.