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• It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

  Tillie Olsen

  Sea, Long, Baptism

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.298, Rutgers University Press

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• Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

  Steve Schirripa

  Mom, War, Vietnam

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• I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Grief, Exercise

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage

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• I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

  Bill Simmons

  Soccer, Pride, Games

  "B.S. Report", grantland.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Wife, Used, Profanity

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• We must educate our sons to save our daughters

  Yvette Cooper

  Son, Educate, Our Daughter

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• 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

  Mother, Dream, Data

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• I never thought I'd have a daughter.

  Tori Spelling

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• To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Father, Boys

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Awards, Eyelashes, World

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• My daughter Jessica said to me recently, who wasn't sorted into Hufflepuff, 'I think we should all want to be Hufflepuffs.' I can only say to you, I would not be disappointed at all to be in Hufflepuff. I'm a little upset anyone does feel that way.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Upset, Want

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• Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

  Philip Roth

  Loyalty, Intelligent, Wife

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.417, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

  Phyllis McGinley

  Love, Children, World

  Phyllis McGinley, “Sunday Poetry: Ballade Of Lost Objects”

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• I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Revenge, Son

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Stupid, Night

  "Matt Lauer Urges Bachmann to Bash Perry; NBC Debate Coverage Promotes GOP Infighting". Transcript of the Interview with Matt Lauer, www.mrc.org. September 13, 2011.

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• Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Women, Understanding

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• If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it.

  Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah

  Lying, People, Use

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• I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Son, Speaking Up, Firsts

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• I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, Capes, Towns

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• An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Mom, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Cost, May

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• I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

  Carre Otis

  Mother, Wife

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Struggle, Successful

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• No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Sister, Mother, Respect

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• Being on set with my daughter watching her in front of the camera was a fantastic experience. I am so proud of her.

  Cindy Crawford

  Cameras, Proud, Fantastic

  "Kaia Gerber Models for Versace". celebritybabies.people.com. January 19, 2012.

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