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J.K. Rowling
"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark."
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Sada Malhotra
"By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong."
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Anna Quindlen
"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother."
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Anita Diamant
"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life … the stronger the daughter."
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N.K. Jemisin
"In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess."
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Cardinal Mermillod
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."
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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."
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Viola Shipman
"A mother’s and daughter's love is never separated."
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Mitch Albom
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."
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Sharon Olds
"The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother."
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Milton Berle
"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
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Jodi Picoult
"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."
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Catherine Pulsifer
"A mother's treasure is her daughter."
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Jodi Picoult
"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."
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Terri Guillemets
"I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me prosper and reach great heights."
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Oprah Winfrey
"To become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is … I know for sure that few callings are more honorable."
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Erich Fromm
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
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Maya Angelou
"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."
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Honore de Balzac
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent."
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Beyoncé
"My daughter introduced me to myself… the connection I had with her when I was giving birth was something that I’ve never felt before."
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Iyanla Vanzant
"One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers."
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Christie Watson
"No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them."
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Princess Diana
"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."
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Patricia Wayant
"The love between a mother and a daughter is forever."
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Jill Churchill
"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one."