Daughters

Famous quotes containing the word daughters:

“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy—the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“For even daughters of the swan can share
Something of every paddler’s heritage—”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.”
—Elizabeth Debold (20th century)