“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again
“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
Source: West of Here
“Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.”
Source: Please Look After Mom
Source: Bloodlines
“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you”
Source: White Oleander
“Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together”
Source: Winning the Wallflower: A Novella
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.”
“No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.”
Source: The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
“Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.”
Source: My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)
“Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.”
“My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.”
Source: Other Women
“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”
Source: Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
“We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.”
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
Source: MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY
“Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.”
Source: how to save your own life
Source: Letters