“The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.” ChristianLastsMotherFatherChurchRootsCatholicAmerican HistoryCatholic ChurchMother And FatherTangled Author:Maureen Howard
“If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.” IfsChildrenHandsFatherFamilyAudienceWifePerformancesFollowingPalmsVersatile Author:Maureen Howard
“Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could spiritually from Bridgeport, he reduced me in a matter of hours to a wriggling child, pleading to go free.” ChildrenMatterFatherHoursMarriedArgumentEdgesLeaving MeHysteriaPleadingGrown Women Author:Maureen Howard
