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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Book by Hope Edelman · 4 quotes · Loss, Abandonment, Motherless Daughters

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“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one neatly complementing the other. A child’s contradictory impulses to both acknowledge and deny a parent’s death represents precisely the type of rich ambiguity that inspires artistic expression.”