Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I still remember how me and my husband spent 30 minutes trying to convince our then 10 and 12 year old son… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
My daughter...why do you not tell me about everything that concerns you, even the smallest details? Tell Me about everything, and know… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I'll be there for ya, girl. No matter what. Beck took a deep breath and released it slowly. He had to stay… — Jana Oliver Copy Share Image
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to… — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
I didn't want my daughter to grow up in that intense attention - wherever we went, we'd get paparazzi. There are bigger,… — Mel B Copy Share Image
My parents are like many across Britain. Neither on the breadline, nor loaded, they were determined to give their daughter all that… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
Hard to say an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are: 'Ryan's Daughter,' 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'The Piano,'… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never… — Martin Andersen Nexø Copy Share Image
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
I am sorry," was all Drizzt could quietly mouth. Vierna shook her head, refusing any apology. To Drizzt, it seemed as if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image