“I'm not sure who has the greater fear, mothers or daughters, that daughters will, in fact, become their mothers.”
“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
“. . . when a mother shares adult concerns with her daughter, a healthy dependence becomes impossible; the daughter feels insecure and alone because she has no parent on whom she can depend.”
“The daughter prays; the mother listens.”
“When mothers warn their daughters about all the cold nasty men out there who will only break their tender little hearts, I'm the one they've got in mind because I'm the one who broke their hearts when their mothers were warning them.”