100 Touching Mother-Daughter Quotes to Put Your Unbreakable Bond Into Words

“The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life... the stronger the daughter.”

“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.”

“Maybe it’s true that in the end, all daughters turn into their mothers.”

“I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

“My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.”

“She was my constant lantern when, like now, the world was dark and I didn't know which way to go.”

“My favorite house is my mother.

“Sometimes even grown women need their mother's comfort so they can take a break from all that being strong.”

“The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another.”

“’Parents exist in children,' Grandmother said to bolster my confidence. 'Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.’

“It may be that loving children, radically and beyond reason, expands our capacity to love others, particularly our own mothers.”

“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words—perceptive and many others—have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.”

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”

"Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved."

“The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.”

“The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.”

"Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas."

"It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do in your life. You never stop needing your mom."

"Mothers and daughters are part of each other’s consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there."

“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.”