From the moment a mother sees those two lines on a pregnancy test, she begins to dream... about who that growing embryo might be, what they may be like, and how they'll change the family dynamics. And though any parent-child relationship is undeniably deep, the connection between a mother and daughter is unlike any other.
Mother-Daughter relationships are complex. There's a tenderness born in the inherent similarities you share. And over the years, as your relationship unfolds and grows, there's a good chance you'll share the most intimate details of your lives with your built-in best friend—hopes, dreams, regrets, and fears. At least that's the idyllic version of a mother-daughter relationship.
The truth is, though, more often than not, mother-daughter relationships are complex. And even the best relationships can be fraught with conflict spurred by charged emotions.
No matter the season your relationship is in, you may be searching for the right words—for the right words to tell your family member how special they are (maybe for a Mother's Day card or Instagram caption) or even to help you through a particularly challenging hiccup in your journey together.
To help you find the right words to capture your unique bond, we gathered 60 mother-daughter quotes that will ring true to any mother-daughter pair.
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Maya Angelou
In her memoir Mom & Me & Mom the award-winning poet and civil rights activist wrote, "My mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value."
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Sheila Heti
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother," the Canadian writer said in her book, Motherhood.
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Daphne Wilder In 'Because I Said So'
In the movie Because I Said So, Diane Keaton's character—Daphne Wilder—said, "God couldn't be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers."
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Kristin Hannah
In her novel Summer Island, the best-selling author writes, "As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong."
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Kristin Cashore
"It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child," wrote the YA novelist in Bitterblue. "By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift."
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Michelle Obama
"I love our daughters more than anything in the world, more than life itself," said the former First Lady in a commencement speech at Tuskegee University. "So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one."
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Anita Diamant
"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life … the stronger the daughter," the best-selling author wrote in The Red Tent.
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Emily Dickinson
"A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled," the prolific 19th century poet wrote in a letter.
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Margaret Dilloway
"Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth," writes the author in How to be an American Housewife.
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Karen Kingsbury
"They both began to giggle and then...fell into a side-splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother and daughter can share," the New York Times bestselling author wrote in her novel Even Now.
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Jacquelyn Middleton
"She's my best friend—she's everything to me. It's always just been me and her against the world," wrote the award-winning romance novelist in her book, Until the Last Star Fades.
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Serena Williams
"With the help of God, she's the best thing I have ever been a part of," wrote the iconic tennis champion on Twitter.
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Sandra Vischer
"The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom," wrote the author in her novel, Unliving the Dream.
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Anna Quindlen
"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother," wrote the New York Times bestselling author in One True Thing. "It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life."
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Sonya Teclai
"My mom taught me a woman's mind should be the most beautiful part of her," the musician-poet wrote on Twitter.
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Drew Barrymore
In an interview with Good Housekeeping, the Golden Globe winning actress said,"My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis. Every morning when I wake her up, the endgame is, Can I get her to smile? And that puts me in a good mood."
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Jojo Moyes
"Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay," wrote the best-selling romance novelist in One Plus One. "Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved."
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Alice Hoffman
"Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity," wrote the critically acclaimed author in her book, The Dovekeepers.
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Serena Williams
The tennis superstar wrote on Instagram, "My Dearest Baby, You gave me the strength I didn't know I had. You taught me the true meaning of serenity and peace."
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Reba McEntire
"6 pounds and 9 ounces, looking up at me / Like I have all the answers / I hope I have the ones you need," said the country music legend in her song "You're Gonna Be."
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Brandi Carlile
"You're nothing short of magical and beautiful to me / Oh, I'll never hit the big time without you / So they can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine / 'Cause I am the mother of Evangeline," sang the Grammy award winning artist in her song "The Mother."
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Carole King
In the theme song for the Gilmore Girls, "Where You Lead," the singer-songwriter wrote,"Loving you the way I do / I only wanna be with you / And I would go to the ends of the earth / Oh darling, to me that's what you're worth."
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Madeleine Albright
"I think the hardest thing for a mother is to make it possible for a child to be independent and at the same time let the child know how much you love her, how much you want to take care of her, and yet how truly essential it is for her to fly on her own," wrote the former secretary of state in the May 2006 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine.
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