If thy daughter marry well thou hast found a son if not thou hast lost a daughter.
Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing---as he knew of me--that he will protect you with his li...
(pl. ) of Daughter
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick mu...
I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon - burned into the crust.But she's wearing these dark glassesin the kitche...
We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's.
Palmira. She’s like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time.
I have to be a teacher to my daughters.
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.
My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Do not forget to tell your daughters God made them beautiful.
What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
No, I`m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.
I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It...
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