What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

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If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. ― Marilyn Monroe

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I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. ― Dale Carnegie

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We are always getting ready to live but never living. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. ― Sojourner Truth

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything. ― Kamala Harris

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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. — Lee Iacocca

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