Michele Filgate Quotes

• “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them. To know what it was like to have one place where we belonged. Where we fit.”

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• “There is a gaping hole perhaps for all of us, where our mother does not match up with “mother” as we believe it’s meant to mean and all it’s meant to give us. What I cannot tell her is all that I would tell her if I could find a way to not still be sad and angry about that.”

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• “She’s happy. Don’t make her think she’s not.”

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• “I've spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug.”

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• “I think the responsibility we have to others that we’re writing about is to write the truth.”

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• “To say: Here is everything that keeps us from really talking. Here is my heart. Here are my words. I wrote this for you.”

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• “It reminds me that in moments of pain I will never turn to her for comfort because she, hurt child as she is, will never be able to give it to me.”

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• “His hands are worms, my body dirt.”

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