287 Quotes About Mothers-and-daughters

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother...When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.

I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance.

Her mother looked pleased at the prospect of being vital to her daughter’s success. Ruth sighed, relieved yet sad. Why hadn’t she ever asked her mother to make drawings before? She should have done it when her mother’s hand and mind were still steady. It broke her heart to see her mother trying so hard, being so conscientious, so determined to be valuable. Making her mother happy would have been easy all along. LuLing simply wanted to be essential, as a mother should be.

As for her mother's tears: ridiculous, and yetmothers weep at their daughters' weddings,everyone knows that, thoughfor whose youth one cannot say.[from 'Morning']

So, there you go, I was a beautiful baby, that looked like a Monkey, and smelled like a chicken.

The pervasive rhythm of her mother’s heartbeat is a ghostly trackthat follows her.

She gave me another hard look, the kind that can only travel from mother to daughter

Mama are emoții. Îi dau să-mi țină geanta și paltonul și i se adună un morman de lucruri în brațe. A aterizat azi-noapte la două și a avut valiza plină, la limita celor 23 de kilograme. Mi-a făcut niște creveți marinați și mi i-a adus într-un borcan sigilat cu multă bandă adezivă. Turte din smochine și curmale, migdale, fistic și pate de ton. Câtă mâncare, atâta iubire, în sensul ăsta nu s-a schimbat.