“I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsTryingHalfBreakSonWallBattleDaughterBest ThingsEmbarrassedBreaking DownOur DaughterYour DaughterYour Son Author:Channing Tatum
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.” MenHumansLittlesRememberLyingPassionCitiesGreaterCenturyBattleProveDaughterWeightPropertyHuman LifeTemporaryBurnedDecorum Author:Brenna Yovanoff
“We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.” GivingTryingUsePurposeLostAwarenessBattleDaughterRaisesCancerMy DaughterPlatformsLost Faith Author:Devon Still
“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.” MenInspirationalArtNamesMemoriesFieldsBattleDaughterBuiltBelovedDesperateHanging OutDwellingGarmentsBanner Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.” PeopleMenShouldWritingHeartBookStoriesNamesLeftColorHairLessonsBattleShapesDaughterShould HaveUselessNosesShirtsButtonsSparesConquestFadingDiscardedHistory BooksLesson Learned Book:The Lost Hours Source: The Lost Hours
“But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.” MindHeartDoeMomentsWould BeMotherEmotionBrainMy HeartBattleSafeDaughterScientistComplexesSurvivorTrappedTrenchesMayhemLove For Her Book:Still Alice Source: Still Alice