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“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.”
“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 everythi...”
“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.”
“Like a detective keenly searching for clues, our daughters are solving the mystery of womanhood itself.”
“Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with”
“The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.”
“No matter how old you are, you always want your mothers love and acceptance. I guess Im hoping one day Ill get it back.”
“You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.”
“Girls should be strong together. Strong like steel, merry like the tinkling of chimes dancing in the wind.”
“I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were found: naked on beaches or cut into pieces, parts frozen in freezers or buried in cement. These...”
“You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing.”
“When I was born, my mother dressed me as a boy because she could not afford to feed any more daughters. By the mystic laws of gender and economics, it ruins a peasant to place half a bowl of figs i...”
“The only one in the valley who was working was Mooney Wright.Harrison leaned over and kneaded his hands roughly. He was wary of Mooney. Mooney was a strong one, not subject to weakness at all. He h...”
“Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface. She noticed that every time she breathed out, the surface fo...”
“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.”
“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
“Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you cant stop because youre because-”
“On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !”
“The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”
“Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.”
