“Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become… — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.” — K.X. Song Copy Share Image
“Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!” — Cornelia Spelman Copy Share Image
“We are God's chosen people. We are God's treasured possession. Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Be careful how you say your own mother’s name; How you articulate your blood.” — Nkateko Masinga Copy Share Image
“Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.” — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
“The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.” — June Shaw Copy Share Image
“Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.” — Heather Gudenkauf Copy Share Image
“By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
“Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“You don't belong here if you are unhappy," she continued. "Your mother makes you hateful, and you make her hateful. It doesn't… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
“My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the… — Dr Annabelle RC Copy Share Image
“Because I know my daughter," she said. "And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and show me… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed.… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“The word 'slut' (in patois) was repeated over and over, until suddenly I felt as if I were drowning in a well… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted… — Catherine Chung Copy Share Image
“If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have to take jobs like this. She would be half a planet away, floating in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
“Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In my teens and early twenties, I often went clothes shopping with my mother and I could always see her dismay at… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The post-divorce lines around Gabby's mouth tugged down her whole face. She suddenly looks older. Older than the image Layla carries in… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I usually enjoy setting up a new kitchen, but this has become a joyless and highly charged task. My mother and I… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“Doing a geographic” is a term alcoholics often use for acting on the impulse to start over by moving to a new… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“Are they happy at all, ever?" "No", my mother says. "I don't know if they'll survive this." "That's terrible," I say. "It's… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Mommies are ineffable, their prayers the driving force beneath our wings; their discipline, the magnet for honor—irreplaceable love!” — Henrietta Newton Martin, Author- The Greatest of All Romances, Your Potters Call Copy Share Image
“Fat daughters and their thin mothers have especially complicated relationships.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either." "Then you're doing it wrong.” — Rachel Hauck Copy Share Image
“I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the… — Trevor Cole Copy Share Image
“And like a grieving spouse who sleeps in the shirt of a lost loved one, I thought that by cooking – handling… — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
“I join thousands of parents globally in advocating for our daughters to accept their natural bodies and for the cessation of the… — Lisa Shultz Copy Share Image
“...She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of… — Colette Copy Share Image
“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
“She put on some music. Drum and flute, I think. She played it soft, because it was dreadfully late, a time when… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
