“In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.” ThinkingMenLooksDoeWholeMotherLinesWifeDaughterFemaleGrandmotherAncestryPrudentMarrying Author:Maria Edgeworth
“I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.” ThinkingMotherNextGenerationsDaughterChinaGrandmotherMy GrandmotherThe Next OneGoofy Author:Grace Slick
“I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.” ThinkingGivingFeelsHeartMayMotherOrderChallengesBreakRiskTeachingBirthMessagesLosingDaughterConvincedDestroyedChainsWho We AreGrandmotherFierceOnly LoveBittersweetMother And DaughterTeaching And LearningLove And TrustIndelibleGreat GrandmotherPrehistory Author:Alice Walker
“In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.” MeanMotherWifeDaughterCirclesGrandmotherTribesMother Grandmother Author:Isabel Allende
“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.” KnowsChildrenWould BeRunningMotherAsksFatherNiceWifeChangedHusbandSixDaughterAsk MeRanGrandmotherMy HusbandGovernorsBeing NiceGrandchildrenElevenMayorsDisappearanceAssertivenessLove My HusbandI Love My Husband Author:Angela Alioto
“Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.” ThinkingFeelsMindBookSoulBodyMotherHumanityGirlFatherLeftGrowsFreedomPiecesGenerationsOne ThingFashionTypeDevelopmentDaughterTraditionPatternsSillyGrandmotherArtificialPlatesClayLoadedSentimentalityProprietyRestrainingMother And Grandmother Book:History of woman suffrage Source: History of woman suffrage
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.” KindEnoughSchoolYoungAsksSummerDaughterGoldMathematicsSellsBraveSevenGrandmotherPoetry IsMy DaughterHoneyMy GrandmotherFleasYoung And OldFlea Markets Author:J. Ruth Gendler
“I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.” I CanGivenDaughterGrandmotherMy Daughter Author:Carine Roitfeld
“For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.” ThinkingOpportunityJusticeDaughterExcitingGrandmotherMy GrandmotherArcsBending Author:Chelsea Clinton
“I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person.” PeopleWayPersonsValuesFoundJusticeUniqueDaughterDramaticHopefulRemarkableGrandmotherMy GrandmotherAmazing Person Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.” WellsChildrenTwoHomeMotherDiesSonDaughterDiedIncrediblesMourningGrandmotherHallsWeedExhaustedAlcoholicsWidowsAnnaDrinkersEleanorSportsman Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.” PeopleLooksMadeRememberBornTalkingGrowing UpGrowingMomDaughterDemocratMy MomImpressionGrandmotherMy GrandmotherLike HerSyndromesYounger SisterDown Syndrome Author:Josh Earnest
“I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.” GivingBookMomentsFeltBornRoomsBirthPagesDaughterDiedGrandmotherMy DaughterThat MomentHospitalsPregnantMy GrandmotherEmergenciesLucyGiving BirthEmergency RoomCesareanHailey Author:Nancy Grace
“I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual, that my daughter calls my father "Baba" and my mother "Mama" is a ritual. There are common African-American rituals that are a part of my experience. If I ever get married some day I would like to jump the broom.” ThinkingMotherFatherLanguageCommonMarriedDaughterGrandmotherMy DaughterRitual Author:Jamilah Lemieux
“My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.” YoungWrittenGenerationsDaughterMemoirGrandmotherYoung WomenMy GrandmotherLives Of OthersHomageGravediggers Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.” KnowsLittlesCountryBigsTogetherMotherNationsInspiringWifeMomMarriedDaughterGrandmotherMothers DayLittle SisterBig SisterWidowed Author:Ann Romney
“When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.” IfsWantInspirationalMatterMotherAsksAnswersPiecesAdviceMomDaughterMereMy MomMotherhoodGrandmotherMothers DayBeing A MomYour MomBeing A MotherMotheringMother DaughterMother LoveFormalityGreat MotherYes Or NoJust A MomFunny Mothers DayFunny MotherhoodBest MomMother FlowerFunny MotherYoung MotherWonderful Mother Author:Erma Bombeck
“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.” IfsLoveMindSaidWould BeWaterPoorSweetDaughterGrandmotherMy Grandmother Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“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.” IfsKnowsSaidEndsStoriesMotherNightAsksAnswersKnow HowDaughterFingersLipsTalesGrandmotherMy DaughterMy Grandmother Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.” WayNeedsBookDifferentStoriesFilmSongSocialThousandDaughterHorseSuicidePhotographDifferent WaysGrandmotherHostHauntingDiagnosisFadedBedtimeSchizophreniaChoreographyPerniciousYour DaughterContagionMemesViralBedtime Stories Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan
“The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.” PeopleWellsAgeYoungMotherFatherSonDaughterAgingHardestGrandmotherGrandfatherSon And Daughter Author:Simeon Strunsky
“I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.” MenWorldWantChildrenMadeTwoDreamBornPoorSweetDaughterRaisedSellingMy ChildrenGrandmotherGrandchildrenDefectsMy GrandmotherCornCountrysideMy GrandchildrenTwo Daughters Author:Hugo Chavez
“My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.” KnowsWellsArtMomentsUsedMotherTurnsMy OwnWifeDaughterGrandmotherGrandfatherGrandparentMy GrandmotherGreat ArtGreat OnesBrevityRight MomentGreat GrandfatherGreat Grandmother Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.” FeelsWholeMotherSidesDaughterGrandmotherMy DaughterUnclesCousinAuntKrishnaSingle Mother Author:Padma Lakshmi