Abandonment Quote by Blanche Wiesen Cook

And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

— Ralph McGill

I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney

[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal…

— Diana Trilling

“I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my…

— Diane Ackerman

She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit…

— Cassandra Clare

Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook