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  • I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

    Mom   Daughter   Mother  
  • All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

    Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.

    Daughter   Mother   Mean  
    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

  • Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  • A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  • Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

    Daughter   Mother   Fun  
  • A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

  • I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

    Daughter   Mother   Grief  
    Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage
  • It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.

    "James Spader: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.
  • If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  • Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  • Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

  • There is nothing more precious than laughter

  • I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

    "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 29, 2009.
  • The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

  • The love between a mother and her daughter is special. A mother takes her daughter under her wing and teaches her how to be a woman. In order to do this, you have to ask yourself what it means to be a woman of today. How do you balance care for others with your own quest for meaning and joy in life and how do you pass on these lessons to your daughter?

    Mom   Daughter   Mother  
  • Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

    Love   Family   Mom  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  • When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.

    Daughter   Mother   War  
  • Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

    Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
  • My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

  • This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

    Mom   Daughter   Mother  
    "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.
  • A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

    Mom   Daughter   Mother  
  • A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.

    Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.15, Macmillan
  • I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

    Mothers Day   Girl   Mom  
  • Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be strong, guiding and unselfish. The sweetly sung lullaby; the cool hand on the feverd brow, the Mother's Day smiles and flowers are only a small part of the picture. True mothers have to be made of steel to withstand the difficulties that are sure to beset their children.

  • Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

    Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.25, Vintage
  • A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

  • To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library
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