Up: [[Compulsion]] > [!Orbit] [[Marion Woodman]] in *Addiction to Perfection* > The addiction to perfection is an addiction to unreality which leaves little room for the feminine. (p. 179) > [!Orbit] [[Marion Woodman]] in *Addiction to Perfection* > To move toward perfection is to move out of life, or what is worse, never to enter it. Addiction to perfection, which psychologically indicates enslavement by a [[Complex]]… (p. 52) > [!Orbit] [[Marion Woodman]] in *Addiction to Perfection* > The chief sign of the pursuit of perfection is obsession. Obsession occurs when all the psychic energy, which ought to be distributed among the various parts of the personality in an attempt to harmonize them, is focused on one area of the personality to the exclusion of everything else. Obsession is always a fixation—a freezing-over of the personality so that It becomes not a living being but something fixed, like a piece of sculpture, locked into a complex. (p. 52) > [!Orbit] [[Marion Woodman]] in *Addiction to Perfection* > perfection belongs to the gods; completeness or wholeness is the most a human being can hope for. (p. 51) > [!Orbit] Melissa Febos in *Body Work: The radical power of personal narrative* > We do not have to earn our humanity by being any kind of perfect. (p. 62) > [!Orbit] Lindsay Clarke in *The Chymical Wedding* > She had striven to make her work perfect — forgetful that it was not perfection which life required, but completeness. (p. 296) > [!Orbit] Danny Gregory in *You Do You* > Procrastination is the slow cousin of perfectionism. (p. 121) > [!Orbit] [[Anne Lamott]] > I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive believe that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.