“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.” YearsChildrenLightAgeDeathMotherFourWifeSonHugeBirthKingsDaughterHundredDiedHeavyScoreFortyFour YearsUtopiaSuffocatingBirth Of A Child Author:Francois Rabelais
“I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.” ThinkingYearsEndsWholeHappenedChangedYouthDaughterDiedThings HappenLife ChangingMy DaughterEldersComaMenopauseWhole Year Author:Isabel Allende
“My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.” FeelsYearsBelieveHappensFatherHalfKnowingSpecialDadDaughterYears AgoDiedFeel BetterFatherhoodFathers DaySomething SpecialFather DiedMy Father DiedMake Me Feel BetterNew Father Author:Natasha Josefowitz
“I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.” ThinkingYearsBelieveReligionUniverseHeavenCarFoolEvolutionDaughterDiedAccidentsOur DaughterYour DaughterCar Accident Author:Sam Harris
“When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."” KindLongSaidLightPainMotherDarkWalksWalkingSorrowDaughterDiedMy Daughter Author:Isabel Allende
“Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.” WellsChildrenTwoHomeMotherDiesSonDaughterDiedIncrediblesMourningGrandmotherHallsWeedExhaustedAlcoholicsWidowsAnnaDrinkersEleanorSportsman Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.” GivingBookMomentsFeltBornRoomsBirthPagesDaughterDiedGrandmotherMy DaughterThat MomentHospitalsPregnantMy GrandmotherEmergenciesLucyGiving BirthEmergency RoomCesareanHailey Author:Nancy Grace
“My wife and I have long discussions about [George] Carlin, and we refuse to accept that he died an atheist. It's just, confounding. When I talked to Kelly [George Carlin's daughter] about it, she said that George Carlin once took her at about 12 years old and said, "I've figured it out." And he says it in one of his specials sort of - he goes, "We're all energy and we're all connected. That goldfish you have, you, me, that boot laying in the street, we're all pieces of light to a giant electron.” YearsLongSaidLightEnergyAcceptingPiecesWifeStreetsDaughterDiedAtheistRefuseConnectedMy WifeDiscussionGiantsBootsElectronsGoldfishConfounding Author:Jay Mohr
“My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. And remember - you can always come home." And she continued to liberate me until she died. On the night she died, I went to the hospital. I told my mom, "Let me tell you about yourself. You deserved a great daughter, and you got one. And you liberated me to be one. So if it's time for you to go, you may have done everything God brought you here to do."” IfsKnowsMaySaidDoneHomeRememberMotherNightDifferencesMomDaughterLet MeDiedRaisesRaisedMy MomComing HomeHospitalsAbout YourselfLiberatedRemember YouRemembers You Author:Maya Angelou
“She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.” PeopleFeelsYearsHumansHomeMotherGirlReligiousTearsDaughterDiedTwentiesEightMonstersCoreRebelNurseFreakSan FranciscoHippieFanaticsBourgeoisTruestBaptistsDopeOld WomanOnionsRunawayReligious FanaticsWild Girl Author:Lauren Groff
“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.” KnowsAgeRememberRightsDaughterDiedMy DaughterUnwritten Author:Philippa Gregory
“I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.” WritingYearsFormMotherGraceMonthsSixDaughterDiedSpellsSix MonthsKnitting Author:Ann Hood