Anger and fear Quote by Hope Edelman

“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation under a…

— Victoria Secunda

“Watching her mother’s decline had been slow and painful: the worst thing she had ever had to witness.”

— Victoria Jenkins

“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

“Few things feel as threatening to a mother as does something that jeopardizes others' love for and acceptance of her child.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

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

But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

“The terrible things that happen to us in life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in…

— Adriana Trigiani

Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know…

— Rebecca Walker

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

— Ariel Gore

“I had spent the last two weeks consumed with my mother’s condition, at her side for many hours every day, living in a soup…

— Jane Gross

“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to…

— C.S. Lewis