Daughter
A daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state of being a daughter. The masculine counterpart is a son. Analogously the name is used in several areas to show relations between groups or elements.
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Famous quotes containing the word daughter:
“If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“The first general store opened on the Cold Saturday of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the stores promoter, recorded in a letter: Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Sabra Cravat: I should think youd be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
Cim Cravat: Ruby isnt an Indian hired girl. Shes the daughter of an Osage chief.
Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
Cim Cravat: Shes just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.”
—Howard Estabrook (18841978)