Demeter-Persephone and Leto-Artemis are both examples of particularly close and loving mother-daughter relationships. The difference is that in the first case the mother is the protective one always ready to defend her daughter, while in the second it is the daughter who vehemently protects and defends her mother.

“The separation of Demeter and Kore is an unwilling one; it is neither a question of the daughter's rebellion against the mother, nor the mother's rejection of the daughter. . . . Each daughter, even in the millennia before Christ, must have longed for a mother whose love for her and whose power were so great as to undo rape and bring her back from death. And every mother must have longed for the power of Demeter, the efficacy of her anger, the reconciliation with her lost self.”

 - Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born