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“I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.”

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Author:Renita J. Weems

“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”

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Author:Elizabeth Debold

“When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.”

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Author:Terri E Apter

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.”

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Author:Christie Watson

“Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.”

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Author:Carolyn Parkhurst

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“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.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.”

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Author:Patricia J. Williams

“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.”

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Author:Dorothy Hamill

“Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.”

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Author:Jose Bergamin

“The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.”

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Author:Elizabeth Debold