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Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what...

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This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-...

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And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

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It will never end.Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our...

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If you ever have a daughter—a blessing I wouldn't wish on anyone, because it's Murphy's Law that soo...

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Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Da...

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To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imper...

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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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Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And...

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Diana GabaldonWritten in My Own Heart's Blood

No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move i...

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If thy daughter marry well thou hast found a son if not thou hast lost a daughter.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more lik...

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Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

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Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth...

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When I was born, my mother dressed me as a boy because she could not afford to feed any more daughte...

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So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or tha...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to g...

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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...

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Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of...

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Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great natio...

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It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose d...

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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug...

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You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...

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They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...

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