Daughters

Famous quotes containing the word daughters:

“The daughters of delight now pump iron.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

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

“Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
And night is night.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)