Guftagu #455 - Page 3

Like mother, like daughter.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

Because mothers and daughters can affirm and enjoy their commonalities more readily, they are more likely to see how they might ad vance their individual interests in tandem, without one having to be sacrificed for the other.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles

He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.