Deborah Tannen Mothers Quotations

I think it's that the same dynamics that go on between any close relationship go on here. It's just particularly intense between mothers and daughters.

Part of the reason (motherly advice) bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.