“I consider the navel to be an indentity-marking
scar that we all bear, though we do not consider it as such. The odd whorl
of knotted tissue at our center we so sweetly call the belly button marks
the end of absolute intimacy and the beginnings of selfhood. The expression
‘navel-gazing’ means colloquially an obsession with the self.
Young children are blessedly free from such introspection. Yet there comes
a time when the child will, and must, discover her origins.”
- Page 101, Navel Gazing by Lindsay Davies
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