"Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end."

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Source : Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Da Capo Press

Hope Edelman

#Mourning Quotes #Injustice Quotes #Ends Quotes

“The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery”
“Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.”
“As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.”
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
“Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.”

Source : "‘You’re the Worst’ stars would stay with their great show ‘until the end of time’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 9, 2015.
“The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.”
“If I was a guy I wouldn't be bossy, I would be strong. If I was a guy I wouldn't be a micro-manager, I would be across the detail.”
“I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.”

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