Laura Kaschiske examines toxic mother-daughter…

You never know where someone else is coming from. Even within best friendships or within mother- daughter relationships, you never fully know what's behind…

— Beanie Feldstein

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do…

— Lucy Alibar

A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find…

— Dan Fogelman

Wife, sister, mother and daughter or the other, the relationship of money! eye's the tears, blood and liver are cheaper than dirt? Ties with…

— Anonymous

I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate…

— Bernice King

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical…

— Dorothy Hamill

Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

— Elizabeth Berg

When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I advocate for fatherhood because of the trauma I experienced as a father. When I separated from my daughters mother, she literally tried to…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“When divorce or separation involves mutual children, it's often the father who suffers the most as a parent and the children who suffer in…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Though auditing a class at the Sorbonne taught by Luce Irigaray and titled The Mother-Daughter Relationship: The Darkest of Dark Continents, Claire had followed…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Honestly, I believe that the mother-daughter relationship is magical, complex, potentially dangerous, profoundly powerful, and deeply transformative. To put it simply, all of us…

— Kristin Hannah

“Claire: One of the hallmarks of a mother-daughter relationship is what I call the Zero to Sixty Factor. We can get instantly irritated at…

— Claire/Mia Fontaine

The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within…

— Elizabeth Debold

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…

— Jacki Weaver