A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
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.
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities. . . and the will to grasp them.
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.
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.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.
The older I get, the more I feel
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
