Top Mother Daughter Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Mother Daughter quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Bill Richardson
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
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Image of Carol P. Christ
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
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Image of Johnnetta B. Cole
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
- Johnnetta B. Cole
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Image of Martin Andersen Nexø
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
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Image of Elizabeth Debold
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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Image of Zoe Cassavetes
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
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Image of James Truslow Adams
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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Image of Jodi Picoult
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
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Image of Oscar Wilde
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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Image of Geena Davis
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
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