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Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right. -- Susan Holloway Scott
Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men. -- Alicia Machado
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter. -- Lenny Bruce
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing. -- Georg Solti
My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted. -- Nia Vardalos
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England. -- Lily Allen
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. -- John Malkovich
Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter. -- Ben Lovett
I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about. -- Romola Garai
I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer. -- Kate Winslet
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. -- Mary Augusta Ward
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. -- Erica Jong
Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths. -- Emilia Fox
I watched 'House of Cards' in three days - and only in three days because I had other responsibilities, like my daughter. I couldn't just sit there and watch the entire season in just one sitting. -- Selenis Leyva
You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them. -- David Hasselhoff
Truth was the only daughter of Time. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great. -- Candace Pert
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? -- Oscar Wilde
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy? -- Clare Boothe Luce
We [ with Italo Calvino] had a great relationship. I don't think it's a coincidence that his only daughter's name is Giovanna. I loved his book dedications to me: "To Giovanna Cau, another book that won't be turned into a movie." -- Giovanna Cau
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel. -- Marge Piercy
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them. -- Isabel Allende
Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other. -- Erica Jong
Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees? -- Groucho Marx
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. -- George Orwell
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack. -- Adrienne Rich
On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted. -- Joan Rivers
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 mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection -- Alexandre Dumas

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