"When a mother dies, a daughterâ€™s mourning never completely ends."

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

Hope Edelman

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Mourning Quotes

“Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.”
“I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.”
“The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.”

Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation
“We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.”
“Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.”

Source : Barry Webster (2012). “The Lava in My Bones”, p.54, arsenal pulp press
“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
“The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.”
“In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.”

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