You are your child’s keeper until she’s mature enough to keep herself. – Laura Ramirez

When we weren’t scratching each other’s eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could. – Lucie Arnaz

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter. – Benjamin Franklin

A mother and her daughter

And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. – Victoria Secunda

A busy mother makes slothful daughters. – Portuguese Proverb

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. – Wynonna Judd

A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. – Victoria Secunda

Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be, but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future…. As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off kilter. – Elizabeth Debold and Idelisse Malave