“At some point, I was just like: fuck it, I am different.”

Cressida, Berlin

There’s a lot of myth around maternal instinct. It needs to be called something else; basically, it’s love. I’m a lion: if someone is bad to my boyfriend, I would like to go and punch them. I think that’s what people feel with their children, it’s no different. The people you really love, of course you care for, and feel protective of. Love is love, and it manifests in different ways.

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