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> [Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-simpson/emotional-damage-is-never-easy-to-measure-but-mothers-who-are-alive/)

Eileen Simpson

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## More by Eileen Simpson

> [Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-simpson/emotional-damage-is-never-easy-to-measure-but-mothers-who-are-alive/)

Eileen Simpson

> [in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-simpson/in-coming-to-terms-with-the-newly-dead-i-seem-to-have-agitated-the/)

Eileen Simpson

> [The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-simpson/the-united-states-which-has-been-called-the-home-of-the-persecuted/)

Eileen Simpson

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