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

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.