Children Quote by Anonymous

Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her claim in the outside…

— Victoria Secunda

“Sometimes being a supportive friend to her mother is the only way for the daughter to get positive strokes from Mom. The daughter may…

— Karyl McBride

“. . . when a mother shares adult concerns with her daughter, a healthy dependence becomes impossible; the daughter feels insecure and alone because…

— Karyl McBride

“The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter’s intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able…

— Susan Shapiro Barash

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters'…

— Victoria Secunda

When a father gives his daughter an emotional visa tostrike out on her own, he is always with her. Such a daughter has her…

— Anonymous

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and…

— Deborah Tannen

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as…

— Antoine Rivarol

“Because children are totally dependent on their parents for their physical and emotional survival, their need for parental love is absolute. The normal need…

— Susan Forward

“A child cannot tolerate a mother’s anger. She either splits from the relationship, or she becomes terrified. Neither alternative promotes freedom and individuality. Independence,…

— Henry Cloud

“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

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

— Anna Freud