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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are ...

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think ...

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Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our...

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I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was s...

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There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman a...

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Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the fi...

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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for ...

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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, ...

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...be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marbles—you...

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this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't...

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Jamaica KincaidAt the Bottom of the River

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too muc...

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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patie...

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Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradiva...

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I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daugh...

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My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like th...

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I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if...

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Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialize...

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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ...

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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up r...

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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dr...

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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good...

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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daug...

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I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her bor...

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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t...

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My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superi...

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My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.

Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie ...

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Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound res...

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My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horribl...

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We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house ...

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I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadershi...

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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high...

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Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know...

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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old ba...

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That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my d...

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Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well,...

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It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, b...

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I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and...

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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I thi...

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My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylu...

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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same...

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Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block col...

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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo geno...

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These ...

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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter...

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time....

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I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be...

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My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He pra...

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Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her...

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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farm...

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My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daugh...

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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a p...

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Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I...

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I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes...

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Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me....

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I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my da...

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Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...

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I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way...

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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education....

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... He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where h...

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