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There is nothing more precious than laughter
Sep 29, 2025
Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
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.
I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
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.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
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.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.
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.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
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.
Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
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