This essay responds to Luce Irigaray’s essay, “And the One Doesn’t Stir without the Other.”  In this setting, the arguments presented by Irigaray as to the mother-daughter relationship and the roles that relationship plays in socializing women are examined through an auto-ethnographic narrative placed in the contemporary and Israeli context. The essay demonstrates that the mother’s tracking of the daughter into a feminine, heteronormative and maternal role, one that requires self-depletion and nullification, might be disrupted in marginal, ethnic and class contexts, which impede the daughter’s attributing the learned role to a gender fate. In those cases, instead of replacing the mother with a male figure of a father or husband, the daughter might replace her with a female figure from a different class and thus, unintentionally, create the potential for the development of female solidarity and even self-awareness that would allow re-examination of the sexual role she is supposed to reproduce.