Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
Maya AngelouRead
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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.
I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.
I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.
My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.
When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.
I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.
But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. _x000D_ My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
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