Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the… — Hope Edelman Chaos Copy Share Image
Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender. — Hope Edelman Connection Copy Share Image
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end. — Hope Edelman Beginning middle and end Copy Share Image
When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends. — Hope Edelman Children Copy Share Image
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life. — Hope Edelman Chance Copy Share Image
“I see the enormous value of a mother's presence because I live everyday with its absence.” — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged.… — Hope Edelman Chance Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Awareness Copy Share Image
There is an emptiness inside of me -- a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy.… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“With my mother, I felt helpless all the time. Sometimes I feel helpless as a mother, but I know it’ll pass. And… — Hope Edelman Mother Copy Share Image
I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or… — Hope Edelman Absence Copy Share Image
“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one… — Hope Edelman Artistic expression Copy Share Image
The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents… — Hope Edelman Adaptation Copy Share Image
“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and… — Hope Edelman Anger and fear Copy Share Image
“Motherless mothers with a history of caretaking experience, usually for sick mothers or younger siblings when they were still children themselves, said… — Hope Edelman History Copy Share Image
a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base,… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“A daughter whose mother chose to leave her or was incapable of mothering may feel like a member of the emotional underclass,… — Hope Edelman Abandonment Copy Share Image
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and… — Hope Edelman Addiction Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought… — Hope Edelman Daughters Copy Share Image
