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Mother Daughter Quotes

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There is nothing more precious than laughter
Frida Kahlo

There is nothing more invaluable than mirth.
Authors on Mother Daughter Quotes: Jodi Picoult Oscar Wilde Bruce Barton Gordon Lightfoot Geena Davis Carol P. Christ Michael Gove Nancy Friday Elizabeth Debold Joseph Addison Washington Irving Frida Kahlo Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Dawn French Fay Wray Emily Dickinson Martin Andersen Nexø Tatum O'Neal James Truslow Adams Georgina Chapman Catharine Beecher Zoe Cassavetes Enid Bagnold Maurice Sendak Victor Hugo Chloe Grace Moretz Gloria Naylor Euripides Maya Angelou Toni Braxton John Gregory Brown Bill Richardson Gloria Steinem
2.
God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
Muhammad

3.
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
Princess Diana

4.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

5.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Joseph Addison

6.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem

7.
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

8.
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday

9.
While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
Sheri L. Dew

10.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Maya Angelou

11.
My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
Chloe Grace Moretz

12.
I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
Dawn French

13.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
John Gregory Brown

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides

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... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
Catharine Beecher

17.
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Martin Andersen Nexø

18.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson

19.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor

20.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
Washington Irving

21.
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

22.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

23.
All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
Jodi Picoult

24.
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

25.
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
Johnnetta B. Cole

26.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
Jodi Picoult

27.
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
Tatum O'Neal

28.
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
James Truslow Adams

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

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Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
Katherine Howe

31.
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

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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

33.
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot

34.
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
Michael Gove

35.
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

36.
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
Toni Braxton

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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

38.
I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.
Georgina Chapman

39.
The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
Dan Stevens

40.
I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
Maurice Sendak

41.
I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."
Geena Davis