Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake he...r claim in the outside world in what looks like total autonomy--in some cases, even "divorce" her mother in a fiery exit from the family--but there is an invisible emotional cord that snaps her back. For always there is the memory of mother, whose judgments are so completely absorbed into the daughter's identity that she may wonder where Mom leaves off and she begins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »