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“Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.”

“There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”

Source: Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

“The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.”

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Author:Wynonna Judd

“We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.”

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Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.”

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Author:Sharon Olds

“A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.”

“My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."”

Said Success Mother Waiting Mom Amount Daughter Optimistic Comedian Procrastination Mother Daughter Procrastinating Postponing

Author:Judy Tenuta

“Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.”

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Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.”

Giving Use Mother Birth Daughter Forgiving Disappointment Refuse Deep Down Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Giving Birth Never Forgive Foils Aluminium

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.”

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Author:Margot Fonteyn

“My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.”

Giving Facts Wanted Mother Birth Daughter Wings Never Quit Mothering Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Mom And Daughter Wings To Fly Mother And Daughter Relationship

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."”

Heart Persons Mother Talking Daughter Ancient Tales Someday Bragging Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Mariners

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.”

“I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.”

Children Stills Different Home Mother Song Daughter These Days Colour Call Me Mama Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Humming

Book:Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.”

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Author:Francis Quarles

“About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.”

Two Kids Age Mother Lost Parent College Daughter Profound Accompany Mother Daughter

Author:Jane Pauley

“How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?”

Years Children Doe Two Mother Sports Share Daughter Two Years Mother Daughter Our Daughter Your Daughter

Author:Boris Becker

“I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.”

Thinking Kids Mother Daughter Cameras My Daughter Mother Daughter

Author:Georgina Chapman

“I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.”

“I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.”

Running Mother My Own Economy Daughter Fund My Daughter Mother Daughter

Author:Jim Cramer

“I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.”

I Can Mother Imagine Special Missing Baby Daughter Meaningful My Daughter Going To Work Because I Can Mother Daughter

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I kind of - I like my life, I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.”

Feels Kind Littles Two Mother Opportunity Given Parent Expectations Daughter Greatest Gifts Mother Daughter High Expectations Two Daughters

Author:Amy Chua

“I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.”

Knows Years Wells Use Mother Know How Computer Daughter Mother Daughter

Author:David Duchovny

“I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.”

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Author:Georgina Chapman

“I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.”

May Would Be Mother Dog Daughter Wake Up Boring My Daughter My Dog Mother Daughter

Author:Izabella Scorupco

“I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.”

Stories Mother Father Games Plans Son Daughter Sticks Love Story Mother Daughter Game Plan

Author:Ted Demme

“I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.”

Want Play Mother Daughter Mother Daughter Younger Sister

Author:Dawn French

“I would infinitely prefer a daughter.”

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Author:Maurice Sendak

“I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.”

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Author:John Ratzenberger

“I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.”

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Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.”

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Author:Jennifer Garner

“I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.”

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Author:Akiva Schaffer

“I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.”

Children Reason Mother Daughter Medical Shops Mother Daughter

Author:Toni Braxton

“It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.”

I Can Play Mother Father Hurt Happened Football Daughter My Daughter It Hurts Because I Can Mother Daughter

Author:Ray Rice

“It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!”

Wells Done Play Mother Imagine Daughter Rewards My Daughter Satisfying Mother Daughter Great Reward

Author:Fay Wray

“My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.”

Two Wanted Jobs Mother Night Actors Father Daughter Customers Hospitals Waiter Mother Daughter Great Father Two Jobs

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!”

Mean Two School Mother Night Hours Class Morning Missing Havens Calling Daughter Phones My Daughter Phone Calls Unified Mother Daughter Feuds School Districts

Author:Chris Colfer

“Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.”

Thinking Way Doe Sometimes Mother Moral Protect Daughter Method Intention Motive Mother Daughter Questionable

Author:Victor Garber

“The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.”

Ideas Might Wanted Mother Party Class Study Subjects Students Horror Daughter Labor Currents Working Class Mother Daughter Chauffeurs

Author:Michael Gove

“The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.”

Years Two Mother Attention Struggle Daughter Female Hardest Two Years Mother Daughter Two Year Olds

Author:Dan Stevens

“The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.”

Play Mother Roles Written Grew Daughter Scripts Abusive Mother Daughter

Author:Tatum O'Neal

“The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.”

Ifs Men Mother Challenges Daughter Structure Norm Subordinates Mother Daughter Social Norms

Book:Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess

Source: Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess

“There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.”

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Author:Kelly Slater

“We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter!”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.”

Littles Moments Mother Belief Doubt Daughter Miracle Inspired Insecurity Mother Daughter Our Daughter Outspoken

Author:Boris Kodjoe

“When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.”

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Author:Kristin Hannah

“When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.”

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Author:Lucie Arnaz

“I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.”

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Author:Soleil Moon Frye

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