"A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her……" — Victoria Secunda
"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' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships."
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7 Quotes by Victoria Secunda
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father,…
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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A daughter needs a loving, available, predictable father or father figure who can be counted on, whether divorced or at…
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To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or confident - it is…
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For even the most nurturing, devoted, loving stepfather has, with a stepdaughter, an uphill battle. The relationship can test the…
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Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her…
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