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Top 20 Michele Filgate Quotes (2025 Update)

Michele Filgate Quote: “When she arrived in the hospital after my daughter was born, I sat there on the starched sheets holding my baby, and she held me, and I cried uncontrollably – because I could finally understand how much she loved me, and I could hardly stand the grace of it.”

1. “When she arrived in the hospital after my daughter was born, I sat there on the starched sheets holding my baby, and she held me, and I cried uncontrollably – because I could finally understand how much she loved me, and I could hardly stand the grace of it.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “A daughter is wedded to her mother first.”

3. “A daughter is wedded to her mother first.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Michele Filgate Quote: “I have made my way into myself and learned that love, too, is contagious. I have learned that healing is possible. That we can make lives that we couldn’t even have imagined when we were little and that we can carry the little ones who we were into these new and luminous lives.”

6. “I have made my way into myself and learned that love, too, is contagious. I have learned that healing is possible. That we can make lives that we couldn’t even have imagined when we were little and that we can carry the little ones who we were into these new and luminous lives.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “His hands are worms, my body dirt.”

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

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “There is a difference between the fear of upsetting someone who loves you and the danger of losing them.”

9. “There is a difference between the fear of upsetting someone who loves you and the danger of losing them.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much of my young adulthood believing: that it is better to be the one desired more, rather than the one doing more desiring. As if love were a contest; as if desire were fixed, or absolute; as if either position could insulate you from being harmed or causing harm; as if being in control could insulate you from anything.”

10. “This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much of my young adulthood believing: that it is better to be the one desired more, rather than the one doing more desiring. As if love were a contest; as if desire were fixed, or absolute; as if either position could insulate you from being harmed or causing harm; as if being in control could insulate you from anything.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “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.”

11. “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

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

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

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “A friend once told me that it was frankly a little bit exhausting to hear me talk about how much I loved my mother. But what can I say? My hunger for her feels endless.”

13. “A friend once told me that it was frankly a little bit exhausting to hear me talk about how much I loved my mother. But what can I say? My hunger for her feels endless.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “I think, ultimately, other people aren’t real to us until they’re suffering or gone. That’s when the imagination begins to work, trying to sort things out, trying to get them right, to understand them.”

14. “I think, ultimately, other people aren’t real to us until they’re suffering or gone. That’s when the imagination begins to work, trying to sort things out, trying to get them right, to understand them.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “I think the responsibility we have to others that we’re writing about is to write the truth.”

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

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “I’ve spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug.”

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

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “She’s happy. Don’t make her think she’s not.”

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

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “To talk about her love for me, or mine for her, would feel almost tautological; she has always defined my notion of what love is. Just like it’s meaningless to say our ordinary days were everything to me, because they were me. They composed me. They still do. I don’t know any self that exists apart from them.”

19. “To talk about her love for me, or mine for her, would feel almost tautological; she has always defined my notion of what love is. Just like it’s meaningless to say our ordinary days were everything to me, because they were me. They composed me. They still do. I don’t know any self that exists apart from them.”

— Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate Quote: “It has been one of the greatest blessings of my life that my sister is able to mirror my experience.”

20. “It has been one of the greatest blessings of my life that my sister is able to mirror my experience.”

— Michele Filgate

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