Matriarchal Lineage Quotes

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

The women are so strong in my family.

From my family, my mum, auntie and nan were all strong women and why I am who I am today.

I definitely come from a line of strong women. It's not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.

I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that.

I think that the story of mothers and daughters is so universal.

My mother is one of seven kids, so I have a lot of strong women in my family, and I have supportive, beautiful relationships with all of them.

We've always had very strong women in my family.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that's driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I've known in my life.

The lineal descent of the people of the Five Nations shall run in the female line. Women shall be considered the progenitors of the Nation. They shall own the land and the soil. Men and women shall follow the status of the mother.

My mom. My grandma, my grandfather. We have a very strong, strong line of amazing people in the family. Very strong women.

I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the women were always strong. There were no questions asked in that regard; you had better be strong.

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

My mom and my grandmother are probably two of the strongest women that I know.