Mother And Daughter Relationship Quotes by Lee Grant, Kristin Hannah, Gloria Steinem, Lisa Alther, Laura Ramirez, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and many others.
From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn’t know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
You are your child’s keeper until she’s mature enough to keep herself.
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight.
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life […] the stronger the daughter.
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I’m able to be when I’m working.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
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.
All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
