Best daughter & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

“To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."”

Thinking Want Ends Causes Sleep Serious Please Daughter Entertaining Going To Sleep Bedtime Our Daughter Your Daughter Enchanting Cabaret

Author:Bill Nighy

“Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.”

Knows Ends Seems Mother Personality Daughter Radical Desperate Surgery Blur

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.”

Thinking Men Ends Facts Mother Hurt Struggle Daughter Destruction Mother Daughter Being Hurt

Author:Eve Ensler

“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”

People World Believe Children Ends Mother Born Half Quality Forever Son Daughter Adults Weight Burden Active Carrie Bores Redeemer Son And Daughter Wronged

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.”

Thinking Years Ends Whole Happened Changed Youth Daughter Died Things Happen Life Changing My Daughter Elders Coma Menopause Whole Year

Author:Isabel Allende

“I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.”

Ends Character Stories Used Middle Daughter My Daughter Main Characters Crayon

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?' 'Oh, honey - that's up to mommy, isn't it?”

Ends Turns Daughter Trials My Daughter Honey Daddy

Author:Christopher Titus

“My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney Love lives on that road; you don't want to live on that road.”

Want Ends Daughter Starting Patterns Hungry Bored Internals Love Life My Daughter Satisfying Buddy Stimulation Dead Ends Courtney

Author:Dana Gould

“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.”

Firsts War Ends Home Together Mother Pieces Doors Fields Picks Daughter Stones Destroyed Mother And Daughter Haul

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Even on the most tiresome of days, I need to give my daughter and husband one hundred percent of my energy. They deserve that love, and in the end, it only fuels my energy.”

Needs Giving Ends Energy Husband Percent Daughter Hundred Deserve Fuel My Daughter Tiresome

Author:Allison Holker

“I think having a daughter is just terrifying. Women in the world get the short end of the stick all the time in many, many ways, and so it's just terrifying to be like, "Well, this is the world we chose to bring you into. I'm sorry." It's not knowing how to prepare for that.”

Thinking World Way Wells Ends Knowing Daughter Sticks Sorry Not Knowing I'm Sorry Having A Daughter

Author:Kurt Braunohler

“I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.”

Want Ends Might Mother Guy Dangerous Daughter Twenties Like Me My Daughter Terrified

Author:Antonio Banderas

“You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.”

World Heart Stills Important Ends Mother Mom My Heart Daughter Chiefs Titles The End Of The Day My Daughter

Author:Michelle Obama

“I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?”

Ifs Ends Self Body Beautiful Used Mother Crazy Discipline Daughter Saved What If My Daughter Smarter Self Discipline Body Image Theoretical Anorexia Anorexics

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay" Why two?" asked Mo hoarsely. "How can you ask for two lives in return for one?”

Two Book Ends Asks Return Spring Daughter Winter Your Daughter Two Lives

Author:Cornelia Funke

“There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.”

Ifs Knows Said Ends Stories Mother Night Asks Answers Know How Daughter Fingers Lips Tales Grandmother My Daughter My Grandmother

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.”

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.”

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Author:Melissa de la Cruz

“I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.”

Giving Should Said Ends Voice Powerful Clear Daughter

Book:Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

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