“The daughter needs proper training and care before taking the role of a mother too.”

“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.”

“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”

“It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.”

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

“Sex role training becomes divorce training.”

“Hitchin' on a twilight train
Ain't nothing here that I care to take along.
Maybe a song
To sing when I want.
No need to say please to no man
For a happy tune.”

“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”

“First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.”

“I don't care who gets in my way--my mother, my grandmother, my daughter: I'll knock each and every one of them on their ass.”