Alexandre Dumas Quotes

There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.

I have such an amazing relationship with my mom, and I think, 'Wow, I'm going to have that with my daughter.'

...I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter friend. I do love you, dear Mama.

Your daughter is your child for life.

Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

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

I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I saw my parents acting like more than just my parents. And I'm looking forward to that with my daughters too. I am looking forward to having them discover me as someone completely other than their mother.

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

I have such a great relationship with my mom that I'm so excited to, hopefully, have that same relationship with my daughter.

On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.

Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unused one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.