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Wisdom is the daughter of experience -- Leonardo da Vinci
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing. -- Gretchen Wilson
Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter. -- Benjamin Franklin
The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian. -- Phillip Lim
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -- Meryl Streep
Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. -- Anna Quindlen
Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. -- Jane D. Hull
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. -- Elizabeth I
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? -- Louisa May Alcott
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. -- Gabrielle Anwar
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. -- Agatha Christie
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; Rock me to sleep, mother; rock me to sleep. -- Liz Chase
Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul. -- Anne Robinson
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. -- Maxim Gorky
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view. -- Katherine Howe
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe. -- Anne Robinson
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. -- John Howard Payne
I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell. -- Julie Walters
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. -- Jim Bishop
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that. -- Vera Wang
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? -- Rose Kennedy
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The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. -- Jeremy Taylor
Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing. -- Elizabeth Debold
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. -- Dorothy Hamill
My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis. -- Sheena Easton
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. -- Washington Irving
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. -- Carol P. Christ
Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional. -- Alber Elbaz
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. -- Agatha Christie
Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return. -- Annie Potts
My mother's parents, Bernard and Rivka Levine, were from Russia and also immigrated to New York City. My mother, Rose, was the elder of their two daughters. My maternal grandmother's family included several scholars and professionals. -- Robert Lefkowitz
Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their father in the rearing of your children. Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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. -- Terri Apter
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her. -- Kristin Hannah
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well. -- Maya Angelou
For I am my mother's daughter, and... -- Mary McLeod Bethune
A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter. -- John Ray
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. -- Wynonna Judd
Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Like father like son, like mother like daughter! -- Jamaica Kincaid
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel. -- Marge Piercy
Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter. -- Jewell Parker Rhodes
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness. -- Philip Sidney
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother. -- Cotton Mather
When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends. -- Hope Edelman
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. -- Francis Bacon
Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. -- Erica Jong
I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother. -- Kim Chernin
On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be. -- Marlene Dietrich
Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother. -- Lisa Gardner
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own. -- Rudyard Kipling
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. -- Victor Hugo
Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter -- Nelson Mandela
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. -- Franz Grillparzer
A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination. -- Debasish Mridha
No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them. -- Christie Watson
I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on. -- Amber Heard
Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers. -- Shin Kyung-sook
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. -- Naomi Wolf
the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her. -- Gail Caldwell
My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one. -- Shelley Berkley
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter. -- Anita Diament
No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did. -- Cecile Richards
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. -- Jennifer Aniston
No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son. -- Pearl S. Buck
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. -- Debasish Mridha
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother -- Voltaire
If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there. -- George Herbert
I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another. -- Queen Latifah
I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter. -- Gabourey Sidibe
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend. -- Suzy Favor Hamilton
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) -- Ann Brashares
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. -- Robin Roberts
But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced. -- Wanda Sykes
My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.' -- Grace Jones
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. -- Isabel Allende
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. -- Lou Gehrig
Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother. -- Sue Monk Kidd
But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying -- Amy Tan
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. -- Ricky Jay
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate. -- Carre Otis
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. -- Faye Dunaway
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair? -- Loni Anderson
It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister"?a person with hopes and dreams. -- Melinda Gates
I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid. -- Imelda Staunton
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach. -- Caroline Rhea
The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother -- Nancy Chodorow
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. -- Kristin Hannah
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer. -- Frederick Sanger
Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life. -- Kim Basinger
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children. -- Whitney Houston
She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. -- Philippa Gregory
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. -- John Sergeant Wise
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families. -- Siri Hustvedt
My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes. -- Tyson Gay
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. -- Voltaire
My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all. -- Joan Rivers
Obliging a lady with respect is to pay tribute to her womanhood in elevating society from her role as a daughter, sister, mother and wife. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. -- Carl Jung
That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter. -- Rob Ford
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own. -- Farhan Akhtar
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter. -- Vera Farmiga
Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter. -- Carrie Fisher

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