“But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.”

“Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severly for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)

“But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.
-Ying Ying”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet

“Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.”

Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet

“Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.”

Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value”

Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist