Approval Quote by Rebecca Walker

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying…

— Margot Fonteyn

“A daughter whose mother chose to leave her or was incapable of mothering may feel like a member of the emotional underclass, like a…

— Hope Edelman

“Mothers are odd things. We're quick to think of their nurturing aspects, but there is also some sort of strange darkness there. It tends…

— Damien Echols

“Mothers are strong enough to let their daughters find out who they really are, and daughters are stong enough to realize that mistakes or…

— Linda Francis Lee

However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology,fate . . . until we can actually…

— Mary Blakely

Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end…

— Nicole Krauss

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

— Lawrence Welk

She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly,…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

— Susie Orbach

I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other…

— Alice Walker

Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.

— Ali Fazal

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we…

— Susan Kelechi Watson