Mother Daughter Relationship Quotes:

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Daughter, Courage, Honesty, Mom And Daughter, Son And Daughter

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

topic: Mother, Unnecessary, Persons, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

- Naomi Wolf

topic: Daughter, Mother, Self Esteem, Mom And Daughter, Mom Daughter

I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

- Renita J. Weems

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Mom Daughter

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

- Wynonna Judd

topic: Mother Daughter, Daughter, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter Relationship

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Family, Crush, Mom, I Love My Mother, Joys Of Motherhood

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Mom, Daughter, Memories, Mom And Daughter, Joyful Moments

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

- Anita Diament

topic: Daughter, Mother, Stronger, Mother And Daughter, Mothering

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

- Gaspard Mermillod

topic: Relationship, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom, Being A Mother

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Daughter, Honesty, Father, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Love, Beautiful, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Being A Mother

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

- Christie Watson

topic: Daughter, Mother, Distance, Mother And Daughter Relationship, Mother Daughter Relationship

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

- Jill Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Perfect, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

- Laura Ramirez

topic: Mom, Daughter, Children, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.

- Zoe Cassavetes

topic: Mother Daughter, Inspiration, Writing, Mother Daughter Relationship

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

- Jacki Weaver

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Daughter, Mother, Thinking, Mother Daughter Relationship

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

- Melissa Gilbert

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Son, Mother Daughter Relationship, Quintessential

A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us and it's also not that fun to watch.

- Dan Fogelman

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Daughter, Mother, Fun, Mother Daughter Relationship

The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.

- Elizabeth Debold

topic: Daughter, Mother, Fall, Mother Daughter Relationship

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

- Dorothy Hamill

source: "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Perfection, Never Good Enough, Striving For Perfection

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

source: Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mom And Daughter, College, Nine, Mother And Daughter, Mother And Daughter Relationship

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

- Beverley Jones

topic: Mom, Mother, Appliances, Mom And Daughter, Mother And Daughter

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

- Kristin Hannah

topic: Daughter, Mother, Single Mom, Mother And Daughter Relationship, Mother Daughter Relationship

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do--never mind to do well.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Jobs, Motherhood, Childhood, Mother Daughter Relationship

The older I get, the more I feel

- Sharon Olds

topic: Age, Feels, Apple Pie, Mom And Daughter, Spiritual Change