287 Quotes About Mothers-and-daughters

Daughters always revel in their mothers admiration. And daughters always bask in their fathers love.

She was a victim of her own brain chemistry, and as her daughter my role was to accept and love her for who she was, not who I wanted her to to be.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Once I asked her why she didn’t like nuts on her sundae, and she said she did like them, but I loved them. And she loved me.

The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.

She'd cared for the memory as she'd cared for her collection of dolls--as if by keeping it untouched on a high shelf it could last forever. Had he held onto it for any time at all?

Everything I have learned about love, I learned from my mother. For it is mothers who bend, twist, flex, and break most dramatically before our uninitiated eyes. Fathers bear, conceal, inflict, sometimes vanish, so the mythology of domestic union tells us. But mothers absorb, accept, give in, all to tutor daughters in the syntax, the grammar of yearning and love.

Women are interesting characters. Their very nature breeds mystery.

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