Elizabeth I
Queen
"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."
Mother And Daughter quotes
Mother And Daughter
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Meryl Streep
Actress, Producer
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
Gretchen Wilson
Singer, Songwriter
"Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing."
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