"a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has to develop her self-confidence and self-esteem through alternate means. Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own."

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Source : Hope Edelman (1994). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss”, Delta

Hope Edelman

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.”
“What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.”
“And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.”
“Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a ChÃ¢teaubriand and vegetables.”
“It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.”

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“I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 489), 1999.
“You need to suffer to be interesting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.”

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