Consistent Quote by Hope Edelman

When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the…

— Hope Edelman

A mother is a blend of strength and survivorship, experience and insight, fancy and reflection.

— Anonymous

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the…

— Rachel Cusk

No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were…

— Kristin Hannah

A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her…

— Saint John Chrysostom

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

— Hope Edelman

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

“A daughter whose mother chose to leave her or was incapable of mothering may feel like a member of the emotional underclass, like a…

— Hope Edelman

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and…

— Germaine Greer

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity…

— Kim Hyesoon

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part…

— Alphonse de Lamartine