Attachment-trauma Quote by Victoria Secunda

“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist.…

— Hope Edelman

“This sad, extreme example is more common than you might think. I have known daughters who felt tremendous relief when their narcissistic mothers passed…

— Karyl McBride

“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

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

— Jodi Picoult

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are…

— Ayelet Waldman

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

“The world is full of instructions and advice on how to mother, in bookstores, in academia, on the playgrounds, in the media. Mothers are…

— Mia Fontaine

Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You…

— Caitlin Flanagan

“past my own feelings of guilt and insecurity, I feel grateful. These parents—mostly mothers—constitute a large amount of”

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

— Susie Orbach

Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know…

— Rebecca Walker

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their…

— Alexander McCall Smith