What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? —Maya Angelou More about this quote Tags: understanding sympathy mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, ready to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways. This isn't pathological. It's normal. It's why you find yourself, at twenty-four, or thirty-five or forty-three, unwrapping a present or walking down an aisle or crossing a busy street, doubled over and missing your mother. —Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters More about this quote Tags: grief loss mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email