I will raise a better daughter than my mother did I will raise a daughter who has a voice that cannot be muzzled a daughter who does not measure her self worth with a scale a daughter who will not let a man speak down to her, even her own father a daughter who does not back down because she's told to a daughter who does not need to hide her moments of weakness to protect those who should have protected her a daughter who puts herself first a daughter who wants her mind to out weigh her beauty adaughter who does not think that her place is a slave to a man I will raise a daughter in a way God did not create my family to raise a woman I will raise the kind of daughter I wish my mother raised me to be