Mother Daughter Relationship Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

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

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

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

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

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

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

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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.

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.

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.

The older I get, the more I feel.