Quotes about Mothers and daughters

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Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart g — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repress — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me. — Rachael Hanel, We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter
I never tired of picturing sharks. — Eileen Granfors, Flash Warden and Other Stories
For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would be a long time bef — Anna Quindlen, One True Thing
I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state — Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
She’d taken care of me in all the ways my body needed, but the devastation of my rape had made me feel the weight of the — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
My mother overstated the dangers of the world – invented threats. And so I saw: Starbursts’ hoof-made gelatin never gave — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement—a rebellion. I didn — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Chi — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Doing a geographic” is a term alcoholics often use for acting on the impulse to start over by moving to a new town, or s — Katie Hafner, Mother Daughter Me
I usually enjoy setting up a new kitchen, but this has become a joyless and highly charged task. My mother and I each ha — Katie Hafner, Mother Daughter Me
When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New York, for severa — Katie Hafner, Mother Daughter Me
Suddenly life was good, even glamorous. We were poor but didn’t know it, or maybe we did know, but we didn’t care, becau — Katie Hafner, Mother Daughter Me
We mothers have a wonderfully precious and truly powerful role to play in the future self-images of our daughters. The t — Melia Keeton-Digby, The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with — Melia Keeton-Digby, The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice — Annabelle R. Charbit
Her voice was perfect, custom-made for my ears. I wanted to hit the record button in my brain and save this all for late — Kathy Hatfield, Secret Storms: A Mother and Daughter, Lost then Found
Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, th — Brit Bennett
M. I’ve never really thought of M objectively before, as another person. She’s always been my mother I’ve hated or been — John Fowles, The Collector