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The fact that neither sons or daughters leave their families of origin is extremely rare— in almost all animal species, one or both sexes disperse.
At a young age, her father died of pneumonia, leaving his wife and two daughters alone with all the heavy chores.
They didn't have all day to wait, so they grabbed Lot's hands and his two daughters' hands, and his wife's hands, and hurried them out of Sodom.
And much meaner, by the way, than the Bedouin who greeted me and tried to sell me one of his 26 daughters to take back to the States.
And I want to thank all of you in the audience for being great husbands, great mothers, friends, daughters, sons.
And I think about, you know, their roles and about how you have to, like, watch what your daughters look at.
She prepared me for this world with lessons in black history, in martial arts, in urban farming, and then she sent me in the seventh grade to the private Sidwell Friends School, where US presidents send their daughters, and where she sent me looking like this.
"Days that I have held, days that I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harboring arms."
One particularly common form of cannibalism appears to have been filial cannibalism, where adult sons and daughters would offer a piece of their own flesh to their parents.
In the 1230s, Chinggis Khan's sons and daughters conquered the Turks of Central Asia and the Russian princes, then destroyed two European armies in 1241.
By sheer coincidence, one of my daughters has a form of pediatric arthritis.
Alternately set in China or San Francisco, each chapter narrates a single story from one of the four matriarchs of the Joy Luck Club or their American-born daughters.
But their daughters feel weighed down by their parent’s unfulfilled hopes and high expectations.
She worries, “In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America.”
Time and again, the mothers strive to remind their daughters of their history and heritage.
Meanwhile, their daughters struggle to reconcile their mothers’ perception of them with who they really are.
But by weaving the tales of these four mothers and daughters together, Tan makes it clear that Jing-Mei and her peers find strength to tackle their present-day problems through the values their mothers passed on to them.
[Are you sure she is dead?"] [They said yes.] Video: (Police siren and shouting over megaphone) [Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories, 2003] [George: On that day, at around 6:30] [I was driving with my wife and daughters to the supermarket.]
[One year after their daughters' deaths both Tzvika and George join the forum] [George: At first, I thought it was a strange idea.]
And my mother, the most important role model in my life, who lives with us at the White House and helps to care for our two little daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Her daughters will have to work quickly though— returning their mother to good health is urgent.
Within hours, the raiders have taken our queen’s entire brood supply to the largest nearby nest— and the queen’s surviving daughters abandon her.
Her daughters help their mother succeed where other queens fail— defeating the reigning monarch, and usurping the brood pile.
We asked him if he would send his daughters as well as his sons.
Those are her daughters, the eggs.
We can teach our sons and daughters about pleasure and desire, about consent and boundaries, about what it feels like to be present in their body and to know when they're not.
This sense education, this is education I want for my daughters.
Now, it is the position, generally speaking, of our intellectual community that while we may not like this, we might think of this as "wrong" in Boston or Palo Alto, who are we to say that the proud denizens of an ancient culture are wrong to force their wives and daughters to live in cloth bags?
Do people love their daughters just as much in these systems?
I'm indebted to them, as I am to my parents, who for some set of misdemeanors in their last life, were blessed with three daughters in this one.
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