Daughters Quotes

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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another.

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.

Love Family Daughters Mothers

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tem

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.

Love Daughters Growing Up Mothers

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of hi

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.

Daughters Fathers Moon Stars

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand somet

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.

Christopher Hitchens

Death God Religion Atheism Daughters Fatherhood Fathers Mortality Yeats