“It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a lot of us did it. In those manicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, properly behaved little kittens.” WorldTryingLittlesDreamGirlRolesTroubleChildhoodAchieveLonelinessWaveAccomplishmentBeing The BestEmptinessLayersShedKitten Author:Anne Taylor Fleming
“We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.” WorldKindWarDreamMotherFatherDaughterDisappointmentSexualityIcePostsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiAmerican DreamWorld War ITenseSitcomCocktailsUnspokenCubes Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey
