Quotes About Mother Daughter Relationships

#1. When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment - which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.

Aspen Matis

#2. She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul.

Trish Kaye Lleone

#3. If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

Emma Michaels

#4. Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal.

Claire Cook

#5. No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Richard M. Nixon

#6. A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

Dan Fogelman

#7. 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

#8. A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

Paddy Considine

#9. A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

Victoria Secunda

#10. The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

Barry Lopez

#11. I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

Chelsea Handler

#12. Already a sizable traffic jam blocked the Bund. Once again the crush and clutter of Shanghai had engulfed its invaders.

J.G. Ballard

#13. It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we're deprived of something meaningful.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#14. It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

Parley P. Pratt

#15. Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I wanted that.

Elizabeth Strout

#16. It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

Deborah Tannen

#17. The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.

Susan Shapiro Barash

#18. She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

Elvis Costello

#19. Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too; her father.

Shahla Khan

#20. You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run.

Miya Yamanouchi

#21. Sophie swallowed, tears rising to her eyes again. It was an odd legacy to hand from mother to daughter: the ability to stand proud among the ruins of one's marriage.

Eloisa James

#22. Is she a friend of yours?"
"No," Diana said flatly. "She's my mother.

Erin O'Riordan