Alice

“A daughter is wedded to her mother first.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“I still want to believe that breathtaking literary work necessitates American men sentimentally naming the hurt we've done, sourcing that hurt to one trauma, and getting congratulated, often by women, for "our honesty" at reckoning with that trauma while neglecting the suffering we cause”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“We were talking about the impossible positions they are placed in, the ways in which they are our models; we were talking about what little space moms have to also need and also want.”
― Michele Filgate

“I love you past the sun and the moon and the stars,” she’d always say to me when I was little. But I just want her to love me here. Now. On Earth.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence