From what I see, about 50 per cent of the time daughters come in with their mothers. It’s a lot more common than it used to be.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

We’re not protecting our daughters if we forbid makeup, eschew fashionable hairstyles, or wear dowdy clothes. The feminine form is beautiful. Sure, we don’t want to hide behind makeup or wear immodest clothes to draw...

I think we’re all now really friends, getting together, sharing things about our daughters, about ourselves, about our relationships with our spouses. It’s a wonderful talk group just for us.

Aw honey. Today’s as important as forever.” Grandpa Joe in “Shave and a Haircut” Flash Warden and Other Stories

I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school level. Yet if I leave Poppet a note in block letters telling her to feed the dogs...

We have a lot of mothers and daughters that come, but every year, we have more men because we’re not just flower gardening.

Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazardfrom the shelf, but with Nabokov’s firstsentence I knew it wasn’t the thingto read to a dying man:The cradle rocks above an abyss, it began,and common...

No. (Laughs) I saw it in the shop the other day with one of my daughters and I went, ‘Wow, there’s that game.’ She said, ‘Yeah, everybody’s heard of that.’ I’m not very good with...

The daughter prays; the mother listens.

Tereza’s mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because...

Mothers and daughters read the same book once a month. We get together in each other’s homes, and while we are talking about the book, we also end up talking about life issues.

I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she...

We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

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...

We were kind of going through a transition. I wanted to be home for my daughters more. Even though I had a degree in teaching I was working more in the marketing and public relations...

We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see. (145)

Your sons and daughters freed us from that nightmare.

We bring our younger teenage daughters with us to help on Monday when they have the day off from school. They look forward to it every year as much as we do.

…I discovered I’m having a girl. And I hae spent a good portion of the last few weeks thinking about the kind f woman I’d like to see her become and the lessons I’d like...

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the...

Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment (‘Daddy,’ wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, ‘people will ask “why is old Christopher Hitchens...

Girls should be strong together. Strong like steel, merry like the tinkling of chimes dancing in the wind.

You ChoseYou chose.You chose.You chose.You chose to give away your love.You chose to have a broken heart. You chose to give up. You chose to hang on.You chose to react.You chose to feel insecure.You chose...

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she...

Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can’t...

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into...

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

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

MY MOTHER GETS DRESSEDIt is impossible for my mother to do eventhe simplest things for herself anymoreso we do it together,get her dressed.I choose the clothes withoutzippers or buckles or straps,clothes that are simplebut elegant,...

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...

It’s not always easy being her daughter.’ I think,’ she said, ‘sometimes it’s hard no matter whose daughter you are.