175 quotes found
“And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'. - Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.”
“Treat your woman with respect, because one day someone will do the same to your daughter.”
“I will teach my daughter not to wear her skin like a drunken apology. I will tell her make a home out of your body, live in yourself, do not let people turn you into a regret, do not justify yourse...”
“Sometimes daughter who is loved by her father very much and loving her father very much, she is getting hurt by her lover very much.”
“Mind", can't make differences between real and not..., (OFF NOW THAT..., then that...), you are saying lie after lie..., then believing in false stuff. And thinking in positive sides so to scream n...”
“To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.”
“I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I once folded for her was doll-sized; as if I can s...”
“When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgmentwhich is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.”
“My mother has always loved piano music and hungered to play. When she was in her early sixties, she retired from her job as a computer programmer so that she could devote herself more fully to the ...”
“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New York, for several days. But she was often gone not always from the house but missing from ou...”
“Stately and commanding, the house I found on Sacramento Street, in Lower Pacific Heights, was an architectural jewel; tour buses drove down the street several times a day and the guides pointed out...”
“Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised the food that I cooked. He cried honestly when I brought out trinkets I had saved for the ri...”
“...be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marblesyou are not a boy, you know; don't pick people's flowersyou might catch something; don't throw stones...”
“this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this is how you set a table f...”
“I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a...”
“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future”
“Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.”
“A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but e...”
“Is she a friend of yours?No, Diana said flatly. Shes my mother.”
“I realized today that a daughter is born twice. For nine months, a mother carries and nourishes her daughter in her stomach, then gives birth to her. It's a happy occasion, but the mother is left f...”
