“So it seems clear to me now: the woman has to throw an anchor back to the girl she left behind, the girl who’s just barely treading water, the girl who is still worrying about why she’s so shy and timid and not dressed nice enough. 

The woman who forgets the girl she harbors inside herself runs the risk of meeting her again –as I did- in the lonely space of a house that is her own in name only” (Ruth Behar)