Together, the authors conducted interviews with over a hundred other mothers from varied backgrounds, asking them their feelings about their role as mothers, about their communication with their daughters, about life changes, about their own needs, and about the issues of independence and support. They drew on their own experiences as well as on the guidance of professionals in the field of psychology, among them Dr. Kathy Weingarten of Harvard Medical School. The result is a wonderfully rich, intensely personal, and nonjudgmental study on mother-daughter relations, one that reveals ways for mothers to strengthen the bonds between their grown daughters and themselves to become lifelong friends. "This book, " said the New York Times, "should aid every woman who has a mother, is a mother, or hopes to become one."