Emily Giffin Quotes

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.

No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

You never find yourself involved in a single action story. Your family is always being with you. And you cannot separate whatever is going on in your life with your relationship with your son, with your wife.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.