A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.
You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
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