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“And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.”

People Mother Loss Struggle Empathetic

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.”

Mother Dies Loss Knowing Prepared

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.”

Has Beens Together Mother Certain Parent Loss Results Wonderful Amount Married Teenager Working Together Autonomy Involving Wonderful Marriage

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.”

World Way Kind War Government Together Mother Loss Happened Conflict Statements Civil War Antiwar Acceptable Mothers Day Julia Carnage During The Civil War

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!”

Ifs Care Mother Felt Loss Sweet Thousand Affection Active Obedience Tenderness Blank Dreary Rallying Rallying Point

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.”

Long Hands Mother Loss Leafs Plight Figs Prudes

Author:Honore de Balzac

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

World Hard Mother Felt Loss

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.”

Ifs Believe Mother Loss Pay Attention Plans Miracle Absolutes Inspired Proof Pay Attention Believe In God Surviving

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.”

Ifs Doe Spirit Mother Father Born Religious Loss Birth Integrity Holy Seeds All Time Acknowledge Holy Spirit Mary Virgins Fullness Accord Virginity Virgin Mary Immaculate

Author:Pope Martin I

“There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.”

Children Mother Loss Grief Losing Losing A Child

Author:David LaChapelle

“Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.”

World Children Home Mother Loss Love Is Share This World Pairs Rivals Sibling Rivalry Indivisible Sibling Rivalry Mother Child

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.”

Believe Helping Dream Mother Lost Parent Loss Havens Brother Absolutes Divides Brothers And Sisters Our Dreams Sibling Rivalry Mother Love Sibling Rivalry Absolute Love

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex