Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

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.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

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