I think mothers and daughters ...

I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can\'t live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers\' hearts.
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.
 Alice Walker

Quotes from the same author

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
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 Alice Walker
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
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 Alice Walker
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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 Alice Walker
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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 Alice Walker
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
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 Alice Walker