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Woman as a daughter

meaning of daughter

 "A daughter is a female offspring, a girl, a woman in relation to her parents."

In societies, daughters often enjoy different or lesser Familial rights than sons. A family may prefer to have sons rather than daughters, with the daughters subjected to female infanticide. In some societies it is the custom for a daughter to be 'sold' to her husband, who must pay a bride price. The reverse of this custom, where the parents pay the husband a sum of money to compensate for the financial burden of the woman, is found in societies where women do not labour outside the home, and is referred to as dowry.

In many cases, daughters in a family where there is a son do not inherit In British heraldry, women with brothers could not inherit their father's coat of arms; though they could display it and impale it with their husband's, they could not pass it to their children. If there were no surviving brothers, all the daughters in the family inherited the coat of arms, becoming heraldic heiresses in their own right. Their marital achievement would then feature the wife's arms on an inescutcheon of pretense, and they could transmit their arms to their children as a quarter.

A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation.  With Daddy's steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it.Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be, but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future.... As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off kilter.Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. 

Quotations about Daughters

• "Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests." 

• "A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life." 

• "Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.  In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

• "A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart." 

• "Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers." 

• "If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter." 

• "A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future."