“Why do we assume that pain yields wisdom or moral clarity?”— Edna Friedberg, theatlantic.comTagged: Pain, Perspective, Trauma, Morality, Wisdom
“American society celebrates people who publicly share their personal pain and channel it into something positive... Why should any of us expect people who have suffered profound trauma to relive it for our benefit or for the betterment of humanity?”— Edna Friedberg, theatlantic.comTagged: Media, Pain
“All children are miracles, but my sister and I and other children of survivors were not supposed to have ever existed. We had a special obligation (like it or not, and many do not) to make good use of our lives and to be proud Jews and grateful Americans.”— Edna Friedberg, theatlantic.comTagged: Holocaust, Jewish, Anti-Semitic, Childhood