Frida Kahlo
Painter
"There is nothing more precious than laughter"
Mother Daughter quotes
Mother Daughter
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Muhammad
Religious Leader
"God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts."
Princess Diana
Philanthropist, Humanitarian
"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
Bruce Barton
Author, advertising executive
"A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future."
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"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."
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"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."
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"[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."
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"A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity."
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"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
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"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."
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"Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter."
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"The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters."
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"The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter."
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"I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore.""
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