Top 60 Mothers From Daughters Quotes
#1. We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
Robert Webb
#2. Daughters hate their mothers; I think it's the law of nature. But you know what? Then they come back.
Camille
#3. The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.
Sandra Vischer
#4. Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn't the only one in town who'd come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.
Sarah Weeks
#5. A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
Sarah Ruhl
#6. Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
Cathy Guisewite
#7. Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of sisters nowhere to go
Millions of daughters walk in the mud
Millions of children wash in the flood
A million girls vomit and groan
Millions of families hopeless alone
Allen Ginsberg
#8. I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
Ellen Page
#9. Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?
Brit Bennett
#10. I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
Miley Cyrus
#11. There are women locked in my womb forever, the memory of their birth. All I can do now is liberate the fruit of their wombs. And it may be too late.
Kiana Davenport
#12. 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.
Eve Ensler
#13. In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.
Laura Benanti
#14. The balding headstones
of the others - quarantined
from their own mothers & sisters & daughters -
I wondered if they, like us, were strange
alloys of sadness & forgetting
the words to the songs.
Jennifer Givhan
#15. There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of the fact has made life easier. Now they see each other twice a year, for a weekend in the early summer and for the American holiday of Thanksgiving
Jessica Shattuck
#17. We didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts.
Eliot Schrefer
#18. I'm urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to miss and hug her.
Drake
#19. I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
Gillian Flynn
#20. My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.
James Lovegrove
#21. How many mothers have prayed to see their sons, their daughters return from war only to realize the war has kept them, the world has poisoned them, and they'll never be the same?
Pierce Brown
#22. This sad, extreme example is more common than you might think. I have known daughters who felt tremendous relief when their narcissistic mothers passed away. They feel delivered out from under a huge burden, but guilty about admitting it.
Karyl McBride
#23. Back-to-School Chats - Advice from Mothers to their Daughters
George Bradt
#24. She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.
Fredrik Backman
#25. For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would be a long time before I would start to think about the other part of the bargain, how easily she'd let me go.
Anna Quindlen
#26. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land
Ruta Sepetys
#27. Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
Katherine Howe
#28. I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, and so tidy. Unlike real life, which is often a mess.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#29. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother...When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.
Anna Quindlen
#30. My arrival
Her womb's delight
Her existence
My living light
Her wounds
My scars
Her skies
My stars
Her days
My hours
Her strength
My powers
I breathe my name
Being her child
Without mother
Life's beguiled
From the poem 'Mother
Munia Khan
#31. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Maya Angelou
#32. None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.
Emmeline B. Wells
#33. Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.
Jodi Picoult
#34. One thing you can say about daughters and mothers - like it or not, they know the truth about each other.
Deb Caletti
#35. Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.
Coco Rocha
#36. Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers - in a word, better citizens
Mary Wollstonecraft
#37. One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk
#38. Lately, Mami's eyes have been so dark, I don't like looking into them because I'm afraid I'll fall in.
Raquel Cepeda
#39. Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.
Heather Gudenkauf
#40. When daughters grow up, they become good friends to mothers but when young boys grow up, they become strangers.
Sudha Murty
#41. Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.
Karen Fowler
#42. I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.
Shaun White
#43. Of course, Bella." The duchess leaned over, and pressed their cheeks together. "What are mothers for, if not to help their daughters find mistresses for their husbands?
Sylvia Day
#44. You're not by any chance my stepmother are you?" Min said to her mother's reflection. "Because that would explain so much.
Jennifer Crusie
#45. On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.
Aspen Matis
#46. Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters.
Louisa May Alcott
#47. Katie had slept through morning mass but she could still go to confession and make an effort to banish her unholy and unhealthy thoughts. Mother never asked what she was thinking and feeling on these trips; she just assumed that anything Katie had on her mind was dirty and sinful.
Carol Storm
#48. We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
Jason Alexander
#49. 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.
Jodi Picoult
#50. Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.
Rachael Hanel
#51. You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.
Sue Monk Kidd
#52. Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.
Barbara Delinsky
#53. I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
Tori Amos
#54. In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took a
lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
Margaret Mitchell
#55. I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?
Diyar Harraz
#56. How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.
Ellen Goodman
#57. The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.
June Shaw
#58. Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
Jose Bergamin
#59. What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.
Judith Perelman Rossner
#60. The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.
Kelly Corrigan
