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. — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried.… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
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… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
