Hope Edelman Quotes

#1. Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In

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#2. New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

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#3. Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

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#4. Motherless mothers with a history of caretaking experience, usually for sick mothers or younger siblings when they were still children themselves, said that the round-the-clock nature of infant and toddler care sometimes brought up familiar emotions from the past.

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#5. When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends.

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#6. When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.

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#7. I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

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#8. There is an emptiness inside of me
a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.

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#9. Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

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#10. Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

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#11. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.

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