Daughters Quotes
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![Jodi Picoult](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1657141143i/7128._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Kristin Hannah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1517255843i/54493._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
― Summer Island
― Summer Island
![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
![Jodi Picoult](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1657141143i/7128._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
![Morgan Matson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1281591801i/3351454._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you."
Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. "I knew that," he murmured. "Always knew that.”
― Second Chance Summer
Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. "I knew that," he murmured. "Always knew that.”
― Second Chance Summer
![Simone de Beauvoir](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1555042345i/5548._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
![Sarah Dessen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1372181953i/2987._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”
― Along for the Ride
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”
― Along for the Ride
![Amy Tan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1697877561i/5246._UX200_CR0,58,200,200_.jpg)
“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
![Michael Bassey Johnson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614091882i/7189272._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
― Scars Of Beauty
― Scars Of Beauty
![Sarah Ruhl](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1441834463i/81678._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”
― Eurydice
― Eurydice
![Daphne Gottlieb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1319499833i/93849._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED
It is impossible for my mother to do even
the simplest things for herself anymore
so we do it together,
get her dressed.
I choose the clothes without
zippers or buckles or straps,
clothes that are simple
but elegant, and easy to get into.
Otherwise, it's just like every other day.
After bathing, getting dressed.
The stockings go on first.
This time, it's the new ones,
the special ones with opaque black triangles
that she's never worn before,
bought just two weeks ago
at her favorite department store.
We start with the heavy, careful stuff of the right toes
into the stocking tip
then a smooth yank past the knob of her ankle
and over her cool, smooth calf
then the other toe
cool ankle, smooth calf
up the legs
and the pantyhose is coaxed to her waist.
You're doing great, Mom,
I tell her
as we ease her body
against mine, rest her whole weight against me
to slide her black dress
with the black empire collar
over her head
struggle her fingers through the dark tunnel of the sleeve.
I reach from the outside
deep into the dark for her hand,
grasp where I can't see for her touch.
You've got to help me a little here, Mom
I tell her
then her fingertips touch mine
and we work her fingers through the sleeve's mouth
together, then we rest, her weight against me
before threading the other fingers, wrist, forearm, elbow, bicep
and now over the head.
I gentle the black dress over her breasts,
thighs, bring her makeup to her,
put some color on her skin.
Green for her eyes.
Coral for her lips.
I get her black hat.
She's ready for her company.
I tell the two women in simple, elegant suits
waiting outside the bedroom, come in.
They tell me, She's beautiful.
Yes, she is, I tell them.
I leave as they carefully
zip her into
the black body bag.
Three days later,
I dream a large, green
suitcase arrives.
When I unzip it,
my mother is inside.
Her dress matches
her eyeshadow, which matches
the suitcase
perfectly. She's wearing
coral lipstick.
"I'm here," she says, smiling delightedly, waving
and I wake up.
Four days later, she comes home
in a plastic black box
that is heavier than it looks.
In the middle of a meadow,
I learn a naked
more than naked.
I learn a new way to hug
as I tighten my fist
around her body,
my hand filled with her ashes
and the small stones of bones.
I squeeze her tight
then open my hand
and release her
into the smallest, hottest sun,
a dandelion screaming yellow at the sky.”
― Final Girl
It is impossible for my mother to do even
the simplest things for herself anymore
so we do it together,
get her dressed.
I choose the clothes without
zippers or buckles or straps,
clothes that are simple
but elegant, and easy to get into.
Otherwise, it's just like every other day.
After bathing, getting dressed.
The stockings go on first.
This time, it's the new ones,
the special ones with opaque black triangles
that she's never worn before,
bought just two weeks ago
at her favorite department store.
We start with the heavy, careful stuff of the right toes
into the stocking tip
then a smooth yank past the knob of her ankle
and over her cool, smooth calf
then the other toe
cool ankle, smooth calf
up the legs
and the pantyhose is coaxed to her waist.
You're doing great, Mom,
I tell her
as we ease her body
against mine, rest her whole weight against me
to slide her black dress
with the black empire collar
over her head
struggle her fingers through the dark tunnel of the sleeve.
I reach from the outside
deep into the dark for her hand,
grasp where I can't see for her touch.
You've got to help me a little here, Mom
I tell her
then her fingertips touch mine
and we work her fingers through the sleeve's mouth
together, then we rest, her weight against me
before threading the other fingers, wrist, forearm, elbow, bicep
and now over the head.
I gentle the black dress over her breasts,
thighs, bring her makeup to her,
put some color on her skin.
Green for her eyes.
Coral for her lips.
I get her black hat.
She's ready for her company.
I tell the two women in simple, elegant suits
waiting outside the bedroom, come in.
They tell me, She's beautiful.
Yes, she is, I tell them.
I leave as they carefully
zip her into
the black body bag.
Three days later,
I dream a large, green
suitcase arrives.
When I unzip it,
my mother is inside.
Her dress matches
her eyeshadow, which matches
the suitcase
perfectly. She's wearing
coral lipstick.
"I'm here," she says, smiling delightedly, waving
and I wake up.
Four days later, she comes home
in a plastic black box
that is heavier than it looks.
In the middle of a meadow,
I learn a naked
more than naked.
I learn a new way to hug
as I tighten my fist
around her body,
my hand filled with her ashes
and the small stones of bones.
I squeeze her tight
then open my hand
and release her
into the smallest, hottest sun,
a dandelion screaming yellow at the sky.”
― Final Girl
![Nikita Gill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1432646214i/7757886._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.”
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![Milan Kundera](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588857088i/6343._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
![Elizabeth Berg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1664836471i/3529._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into that of a woman on her wedding day, righting her veil. And how, when that bride blinks, she reopens her eyes to see a frazzled young mother trying to get lipstick on straight for the parent/teacher conference that starts in three minutes. And how after that young woman bends down to retrieve the wild-haired doll her daughter has left on the bathroom floor, she rises up to a forty-seven-year-old, looking into the mirror to count age spots.”
― What We Keep
― What We Keep
![Laurie Halse Anderson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1563830499i/10003._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can. ”
― Wintergirls
― Wintergirls
![Nikita Gill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1432646214i/7757886._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”
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![Alice Hoffman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1590599928i/3502._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”
― The Dovekeepers
― The Dovekeepers
![Eloisa James](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1375996000i/86778._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.”
― An Affair Before Christmas
― An Affair Before Christmas
![W. Somerset Maugham](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1414096390i/4176632._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common past was a wall of indifference between them. Kitty knew too well that she had done nothing to beget her father's affection, he had never counted in the house and had been taken for granted, the bread-winner who was a little despised because he could provide no more luxuriously for his family; but she had taken for granted that he loved her just because he was her father, and it was a shock to discover that his heart was empty of feeling for her. She had known that they were all bored by him, but it had never occurred to her that he was equally bored by them. He was as ever kind and subdued, but the sad perspicacity which she had learnt in suffering suggested to her that, though he probably never acknowledged it to himself and never would, in his heart he disliked her.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
![Kristina Riggle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1467035151i/2759326._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined)”
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![Laurie Halse Anderson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1563830499i/10003._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode. ”
― Wintergirls
― Wintergirls
“Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.”
― Father to Daughter: Life Lessons on Raising a Girl
― Father to Daughter: Life Lessons on Raising a Girl
“Let truth be told. The more we allow water to be controlled, bottled and sold — the more we sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gold.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Hope Edelman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1599170078i/76548._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought I was prepared, but when it happened I fell apart. That's when I realized I'd been hanging on to the hope, however slim, that as long as she was alive she might somehow get better.”
― Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
― Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
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