67 Quotes by Victoria Secunda

When fathers are lovingly involved with their daughters from birth, the daughters reap the benefits all their lives. Daughters who had fathers they could count on are the most likely to be drawn to men who treat them well, to see their lovers as dependable people who won’t suddenly disappear, and to be consistently orgasmic.

Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake he r claim in the outside world in what looks like total autonomy--in some cases, even divorce her mother in a fiery exit from the family--but there is an invisible emotional cord that snaps her back. For always there is the memory of mother, whose judgments are so completely absorbed into the daughter's identity that she may wonder where Mom leaves off and she begins.

A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy's steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.

When a father gives his daughter an emotional visa to strike out on her own, he is always with her. Such a daughter has her encour aging, understanding daddy in her head, cheering her on--not simply as a woman but as a whole, unique human being with unlimited possibilities.

A daughter needs a loving, available, predictable father or father figure who can be counted on, whether divorced or at home. She needs his best paternal intentions, even if his efforts occasionally fall short. She needs his maturity and limit setting and sexual oppositeness, so that she can function with confidence in the wider world of adult love and work.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident... it is to have a soulmate for life.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident -- it is to have a soulmate for life.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confidante it is to have a soul mate for life.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident, it is to have a soulmate for life.