Mother Daughter Relationship Quotes

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.

I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and all the hard humiliating stuff she has to go through. Or thinks she has to go through.

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

The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

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.

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.

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.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

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.

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.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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.

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.