"There is an emptiness inside of me -- a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again."

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Source : Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Da Capo Press

Hope Edelman

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“Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity.”
“Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)”
“I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.”
“Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.”
“The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.”
“And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.”

Source : "Amy Poehler Talks to Rachel Dratch About Her Memoir". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.thedailybeast.com. March 26, 2012.
“My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.”
“The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.”

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