#daughters

What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#men #mothers #pain #men

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 did. She tended to me. She administrated me. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#mothers #love

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fathers-and-daughters #game-of-thrones #love

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ↗

— John Gregory Brown

#love

Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #mothers-and-daughters #religion #love

Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid. ↗

— Mindy Schanback

#humor #marriage #mothers-and-daughters #marriage

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#daughters-of-god #forgiveness #god #grace #growth

...you are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you. ↗

— Vesna Bailey

#mothers-and-daughters #inspirational

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

— Kifah Shah

#daughters #empowering #inspirational #mothers #women

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. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #love #mothers #beauty