Mother Daughter Relationship Quotes

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  We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother Daughter, Courage, Honesty

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mother, Daughter, Self Esteem

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• I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

  Renita J. Weems

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

  Wynonna Judd

  Daughter, Mother, Honesty

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  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.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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• A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

  Bruce Barton

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Memories

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• The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Stronger

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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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• If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

  Thomas Fuller

  Daughter, Honesty, Father

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• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

  Agatha Christie

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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• 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.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

  Christie Watson

  Mother, Daughter, Distance

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

  Laura Ramirez

  Mom, Daughter, Children

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• I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Mother Daughter, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

  Jacki Weaver

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Mother, Daughter, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us and it's also not that fun to watch.

  Dan Fogelman

  Daughter, Mother, Fun

  Source: collider.com

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• The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Daughter, Mother, Fall

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• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Perfection

  "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

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• We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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