Daughters Quotes

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

~ Jeanette Winterson

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

~ Eloisa James

Was it possible this one would be a son too? She hoped so, but not because she favored men. Her husband modeled the seriousness, the stoicism, that she hoped her sons would inherit, but she had nothing to teach a daughter. She could teach her to dream—say, to be a painter, as she herself had been trained—and then teach her to let it go. Teach her to cloister herself in dark hallways, admiring how the light fell through the rice-paper doors while knowing that there was no point in putting it on canvas.

~ Shawna Yang Ryan

Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can’t stop because you’re … because-

~ Megan Abbott

On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

~ Kelly Corrigan

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

~ Anita Diamant

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

~ Gillian Flynn

The daughter prays, the mother listens.

~ Amanda Downum

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

~ Deborah Tannen

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

~ Malala Yousafzai

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

~ Gloria Steinem