Mothering Daughters Quotes & Sayings

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult. — Louise Erdrich

I'm ashamed to reveal that, even as a teanager, I was guilty of participanting in the mummy wars and jusging another woman for her mothering preferences. It seems that the stay-at-home mothers are still being accused of being anti-feminist and poor role models to their daughters, whereas working mothers have been accused of everything from child abuse to being selfish feminists and inflating house prices. Women are pinched against other women, and no matter where you stand in this minefield, you can't help but notice that men seem to escape the guilt and the blame. — Kasey Edwards

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters. — Rick Riordan

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Thinking can be done best when you're in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration. — Auliq Ice

We're not here to discuss Maleficent! Her story is too long and complicated to debate in the time we have left... — Serena Valentino

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. — V.S. Naipaul

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal. — Margaret Atwood

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity? — Michael Buckley

She hadn't waited for God's direction. She'd decided for herself what was best. — Candice Sue Patterson

That which is good to be done, cannot be done too soon; and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently happen that it will not be done at all. — Richard Mant

Anybody who knows him, even all the girls, will tell you he's a great guy, and they'll do anything for him, right up until they want to kill him. — Jennifer Echols

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship. — Freida Pinto