Daughter Quotes - Page 32

• As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

  Solomon

  Love, Son, Apples

  King Solomon, “The Song Of Songs”

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• Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

  Grace Kelly

  Horse, Teenage, Riding

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• [On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

  Jessica Alba

  Travel, Vacation, Two

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Mother, Sex, Father

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• Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Lying, Mexican, Healthy

  "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. October 14, 2002.

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• But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Men, Law, World

  Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.187, Heinemann

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• Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Mother, Memories, Feet

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• [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

  Joan Fontaine

  Children, Giving, Troubled Relationship

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time.
  [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  Aulus Gellius

  Truth, Names, Remember

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• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Father, Struggle

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• [When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

  Bess Truman

  Years, President, Care

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• [On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

  Pat Nixon

  Sorry, Want, Politician

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• our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Children, Home, Son

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.58, Penguin

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• How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Children, Responsibility, Son

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• Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Player, Drummer

  "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.

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• I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.

  Elana Dykewomon

  Mother, Women, Mean

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• I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

  Kim Chernin

  Mother, Losing, Losing Myself

  Kim Chernin (1984). “In My Mother's House”, Perennial

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• In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.

  Mary Cantwell

  Growing Up, Memories, Father

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• There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that.

  Mari Sandoz

  Mother, Pigs, Average

  Mari Sandoz (1992). “Letters of Mari Sandoz”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press

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• I find it very heartening that of the women I have questioned lately about their feelings towards their mother, all the ones whose faces light up and who say, 'She's wonderful' have been daughters of women who work outside the home.

  Mary Stott

  Mother, Home, Light

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• I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache.

  Jean Carroll

  Dirty, Blue, Jeans

  "Jean Carroll, 98, Is Dead; Blended Wit and Beauty" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2010.

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• I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Mother, Vegetables, Kitchen

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• I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Art, Son, Play

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• My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

  Jim Beaver

  Father, Cancer, Struggle

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• Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Dream, Father

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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