My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.
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Related You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case. PATTY HEARST Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their... EZRA TAFT BENSON We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They... ELIZABETH LONSDORF Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them RAFIA SHUJAAT And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, a... BIBLE Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after he... JEREMY TAYLOR My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out emba... PETRA STUNT The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s... IRIS CHANG Because so many functions are for fathers and sons, this is for fathers to bring them closer to thei... EUNICE TUCKER I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives... GILLIAN ANDERSON MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED It is impossible for my mother to do even the simplest... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB I think fathers were put on Earth to embarrass their daughters. CATE CAMPBELL I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautifu... MICHELLE OBAMA The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter. ANITA DIAMANT The resolution is an all-out attack on the women of Tennessee and seeks to rob women of their right ... HEDY WEINBERG I'm not trying to be your daughters role model. I'm trying to be my role model and my daughters role... NERISSA IRVING Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler LORD BYRON Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. JANE D. HULL The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear ... WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend... VIKRANT PARSAI Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my ... ANNIE LENNOX Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. LORD BYRON My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States. GIOCONDA BELLI One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. LAWRENCE WELK There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... ... GARY REILLY Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both over... DEBORAH TANNEN And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant... AMY TAN Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until th... GRACE MCGARVIE Supporting the troops means paying attention to their needs both in the field and at home. It means ... SENATOR JOHN KERRY We wanted to teach the mothers separately, so the daughters could see them as educators. The mothers... BARBARA DANCY It's been real positive for us to have the parents being mandated to come with their sons and daught... JAMES JORDAN I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters. PAT BUCKLEY The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their we... GENGHIS KHAN A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. B... SARAH RUHL We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more lik... GLORIA STEINEM When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothe... DEBORAH TANNEN Because I know my daughter," she said. "And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure ... JIM BUTCHER All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college ... JODI PICOULT How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and l... NEIL GAIMAN Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away. HEATHER GUDENKAUF Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Da... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more... GLORIA STEINEM The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their w... GENGHIS KHAN When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they ac... NICHOLAS KRISTOF Honestly, when Bill and I visit, we don't talk about football as much as we do about our families. H... MIKE HOLMGREN If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would c... BRIGHAM YOUNG Honor your daughters. They are honorable. MALALA YOUSAFZAI My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened. PATTY HEARST This is where we learn that he had two daughters... his two daughters, Sylvia and Regina. GAYLE ALVAREZ They did not want to follow in their parents' footsteps and be housebound, ... And they strived for ... CINDY CHU They did not want to follow in their parents' footsteps and be housebound. And they strived for inde... CINDY CHU Historically, (Chinese) families prefer a son. The son is the one who carries the family name, does ... CARA CASSELLA My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than ... BILL HALTER My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and ... CHUCK PAGANO Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of ro... KRISTIN CASHORE We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because w... NANCY KEENAN It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince ... MELANIE RAWN I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, whic... SANDRA TSING LOH Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. T... KAHLIL GIBRAN No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white gi... MUHAMMAD ALI Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think... DAKOTA FANNING I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's t... DAVID KRUMHOLTZ He was a family man. He adored his daughters. He totally adored his daughters. WALLIS HUTCHKO I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and ... RYAN ZINKE Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans,... ALBIO SIRES give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. ... WARSAN SHIRE ...you are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you. VESNA M. BAILEY Oh here's a nice one, he brown recluse spider. This once resides in wooded areas. In other words, ne... YVONNE PRINZ Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose i... BRIT BENNETT Even Dad likes it," said Caddy, and her father agreed that he did. In a way. Being a broad-minded, t... HILARY MCKAY love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i w... MAYA ANGELOU I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish mo... MADELEINE THIEN Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with MELIA KEETON-DIGBY Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves. GEORGE HERBERT Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout the... TOM BROKAW So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons. PAT BOONE There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she... SOPHIA AMORUSO It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids... BILLY CRYSTAL Allison and Kate (her daughters) were 7 and 4 (when their brother passed away), and I wanted them to... ERIN HULSHIZER It is not acceptable to force mothers to testify against their daughters, to make lawyers testify ag... JOHN CONYERS Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors. DAVID WILKERSON A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. IRISH SAYINGS Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughte... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal PETER USTINOV She remembers once handing her father a flower she picked and how in the act of giving she experienc... GLENN HAYBITTLE You know why he can do me so well? I have three daughters. He's been cruising my house for years. Bu... ROBERT WAGNER Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ... ST. TERESA OF AVILA I would see her and her daughters on the front porch and in the back yard. I was shocked. I was just... CHARLES WALKER It's all very unreal. If we wouldn't have gotten to my daughters in those three minutes we wouldn't ... DOLORES CLEMENS I have two young daughters and I don't want them watching something that I feel is inappropriate. DAVE HARPER They're almost like daughters to me. MARK VOGT My wife worked at Children's Hospital, ... They took her and my two daughters in, but they told me I... LOUIS BROWN My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to mov... HERBIE MANN while you are learning, my daughters will suffer. MARK MORALES No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom. We are making a... MARILYN FAATZ This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work ... MARGE PIERCY And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelop... BIBLE The Army is America. We are America's sons and daughters. America's sons and daughters are getting t... BRYAN HILFERTY
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