MOTHER AND DAUGHTER QUOTES 

Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.

Signe Hammer

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From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.
Lee Grant

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.
Mary Pride

Maybe Mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.
Mary Tyler Moore

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress—I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman

My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminum foil and use it over again.
Erma Bombeck

When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.
Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.
Margot Fonteyn

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
Erica Jong

Whitney Houston captures many of our feelings in this mother and daughter quote:

She's my teacher, my advisor, my greatest inspiration.
Whitney Houston

I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.
Leontyne Price

The greatest gift of all in all these mother and daughter quotes: just let her be:

I still hear you humming, Mama. The color of your song calls me home. The color of your words saying, "Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be." And I be, Mama.
Sonia Sanchez

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