Quotes Mother and Daughter Relationships

Celebrate your closeness, tease out the complexities of your relationship by reading and reflecting on the quotations below. If you have words of wisdom to add to our collection, share it with the world—submit it, using the Contact Us link to the right.

Copyright © 2007 by Laura Ramirez. All rights reserved.

A mother's love for her child is like
nothing else in the world. It knows no
law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes
down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

~ Agatha Christie

Sometimes the laughter in mothering
is the recognition of the ironies and
absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's
just pure, unthinking delight.

~ Barbara Shapiro

Read the parenting book that helps you create a lifelong closeness with your child and raise her to unfold the unique strengths within her heart.

Quotes Mother and Daughter Relationships

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

~ Dorothy Fisher

Some are kissing mothers and some
are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

~ Pearl S Buck

We mothers are learning to mark our
mothering success by our daughters'
lengthening flight.

~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I cannot forget my mother,
She is my bridge.

~ Renita Weems

Quotes Mother and Daughter Relationships

You are your child's keeper
until she's mature enough to keep herself.

~ Laura Ramirez, Author of the parenting book Keepers of the Children.

The art of mothering is to teach
the art of living to children.

~ Elaine Heffner

The world is full of women blindsided by
the unceasing demands of motherhood,
still flabbergasted by how a job can be
terrific and tortuous.

~ Anna Quindlen

What children take from us, they give.
We become people who feel more deeply,
question more deeply,
and love more deeply.

~ Sonia Taitz

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