Victoria Secunda

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

When a father gives his daughter an emotional visa to strike out on her own he is always with her. Such a daughter has her encour aging understanding daddy in her head cheering her on not simply as a woman but as a whole unique human being with unlimited possibilities.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident… it is to have a soul mate for life.

A daughter is a mothers gender partner her closest ally in the family confederacy an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters role model their biological and emotional road map the arbiter of all their relationships.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident... it is to have a soulmate for life.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident, it is to have a soulmate for life.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident it is to have a soulmate for life.

Mothers are not simply models of femininity to their daughters but also examples of how a woman reacts to a man. Daughters learn about fathers, and men, not only by being with Dad but also by observing their parents' marital relationship--or its unraveling.

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confidante it is to have a soul mate for life.