Our daughter-mother relationships are the most intimate, some say. Even the most difficult of them have moments of sheer joy. What are the most memorable and life sustaining of yours?

Lynn Henriksen & Kate Farrell

Both Lynn and Kate share the goal of finding the key memories of our mothers or mother figures that provided us with life changing wisdom. Both professional writers and published authors, they find joy in hearing the voices of women who are willing to recall the often hidden legacies of our mothers.

Did we leave our mothers behind when our lives turned out to be different from hers?

Is mother relevant? Does mother matter at all?

Look for memories of her that transcend our changing times.

Did Mother know best?

Or were her words overlooked because she was just a woman?

Find out whether there were pearls of wisdom in her everyday remarks.

Women’s relationships with their mothers are more fractured than ever before. The mother-daughter dialectic, so crucial in forming a young woman’s identity, has been deeply affected by pendulum swings between high feminism and its backlash. In addition, popular culture in the 21^st century offers seemingly limitless opportunities for women while focusing on images of vapid, female celebrity. Yet the trail of self-discovery through the territory of mother-daughter relationships is a rich and rewarding path, and when captured in memoir, can provide a glimpse of the road ahead.

Surprisingly, the profound experiences between daughter and mother remain mostly unrecorded, even though this bond is a woman’s primary relationship, at the core of her health and well-being. Giving voice to the complexities of mother-daughter relationships will speak common truths and make meaning of discord.

Wisdom Has a Voice: Daughters Remember Mothers begins a written tradition among women. This memoir anthology serves to reveal the hidden and important legacies of our mothers. With diverse writers from a variety of backgrounds, some well known, we will explore the fundamental events in mother-daughter relationships and how these shaped our lives.

Does thinking of mother make you wince or win you over?

Gather your thoughts about mother into memories and memoir into truth.

Discover the hidden legacies of daughter-mother wisdom.

Mothers are hiding in plain sight. Often overlooked by our culture in its fascination with female sexuality and celebrity, real life mothers have faded into the background, wallflowers to the prom queen. Because society expects “perfect” mothers to keep their problems to themselves and protect the family, the authentic voice of the mother is frequently silenced.

Yet it is clear that mothers provide the critical role model for their daughters, influencing them even before birth. How a mother thinks of herself, her needs, her social role, is a blueprint for her daughter. Knowing the extent of her mother’s influence and how to define it can be pivotal in any woman’s life.

Our mission in compiling daughter-mother memoirs is to examine this intimate and powerful relationship. In gathering these true tales, we document the ongoing tradition of women’s truths across the generations. We will mine the hidden legacy of our mothers through factual, well-crafted stories.