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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. -- Jennifer Aniston
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. -- Wynonna Judd
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
So, this is my government's agenda: educate your daughter and save your daughter. -- Narendra Modi
God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts. -- Muhammad
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working. -- Mary Tyler Moore
All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part... -- Charlotte Gray
God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. -- Mary Pride
I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters. -- Lois Wyse
With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer. -- Betsey Johnson
Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue. -- Bill Richardson
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. -- Michelle Obama
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
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. -- Charles Perrault
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence. -- Margot Fonteyn
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was. -- Isabella Rossellini
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?! -- Fay Wray
My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again. -- Erma Bombeck
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. -- Erica Jong
Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support. -- Leontyne Price
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama. -- Sonia Sanchez
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so. -- Erma Bombeck
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies. -- Elizabeth Debold
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing. -- Gretchen Wilson
My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian. -- Phillip Lim
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. -- Erica Jong
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. -- Lawrence Welk
Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. -- Jane D. Hull
Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. -- Janice Dickinson
I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on. -- Amber Heard
My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one. -- Shelley Berkley
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. -- Gabrielle Anwar
Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul. -- Anne Robinson
There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. -- Tina Brown
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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
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
It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was. -- Georgia Holt
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
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
Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter. -- Benjamin Franklin
For I am my mother's daughter, and... -- Mary McLeod Bethune
A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter. -- John Ray
Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Like father like son, like mother like daughter! -- Jamaica Kincaid
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. -- Francis Bacon
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother. -- Cotton Mather
Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness. -- Philip Sidney
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel. -- Marge Piercy
Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter. -- Jewell Parker Rhodes
When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends. -- Hope Edelman
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
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
I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother. -- Kim Chernin
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 Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. -- Naomi Wolf
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
Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers. -- Shin Kyung-sook
the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her. -- Gail Caldwell
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
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
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother -- Voltaire
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
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
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter. -- Gabourey Sidibe
I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend. -- Suzy Favor Hamilton
I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell. -- Julie Walters
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. -- Robin Roberts
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) -- Ann Brashares
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
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
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? -- Rose Kennedy
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying -- Amy Tan
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
My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. -- Ricky Jay
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair? -- Loni Anderson
I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate. -- Carre Otis
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
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
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
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
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 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 daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach. -- Caroline Rhea
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. -- Jessica Lange
I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised. -- Chelsea Cain
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
In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive. In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning: prepare to die, and transmit. -- Erin Mouré
There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter. -- Leigh Newman
The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy. -- William Levy
I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance. -- Denise Bidot

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