UNMOTHERED CHILD

  
I want to tell you a psychic secret, something that is so simple that all of us will wonder why we didn't think of it ourselves. In order to grow the internal mother, you have to be willing to be decent and good to yourself. The more you are willing to accept self-love, self-respect -- it doesn't matter if your ears stick out or your hair stands on end or you're too short or you're too wide or you're too tall or you're too fat -- it doesn't have to do with any of that. It has to do with caring about all the things you are. 

-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes