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Hope Edelman is an American author born on June 17, 1964. Her works primarily focus on women's issues, particularly discussions about motherhood and feminine identity. Edelman is known for her in-depth research and moving narratives, with her books having a wide-reaching impact among women.

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“The mother who abandoned her child or took her own life leaves a daughter with the most direct access route to anger--she left me--but even the mother who falls ill and dies can be an object of blame.”

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Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist. And persist. And persist. She may alternate between wanting to protect her mother and resenting her, an advance-and-retreat dance of identification and rejection than can span years.”

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Author:Hope Edelman

“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.”

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Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought I was prepared, but when it happened I fell apart. That's when I realized I'd been hanging on to the hope, however slim, that as long as she was alive she might somehow get better.”

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Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“It's hard to understand how we can harbor negative feelings toward someone we love when the two appear to sit at such competing ends of the spectrum. But negative emotion does, which is why even daughters of abusive mothers need to mourn the loss.”

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Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

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Born: June 17, 1964
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