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“In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.”

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Ann Hood

Ann Hood is a renowned American novelist, born on December 9, 1956. Her works are known for their delicate emotional descriptions and profound psychological insights, which have won her a wide audience. more

“In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.”

Men Mother Father Goal My Own Class Middle Daughter Setting Traditional Settings Middle Class Neighborhood My Future Disappoint Bengali Taking Charge Patriarch

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.”

War Suffering Domain Exertion

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.”

Feels Whole Mother Sides Daughter Grandmother My Daughter Uncles Cousin Aunt Krishna Single Mother

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.”

Heart Mother Break Hair My Heart Daughter My Daughter Hug Brushes Breaking My Heart

Author:Angie Harmon

“It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.”

Mother Speak Given Company Daughter Concepts China Immigrants Here And Now Vantage Point

Author:Andrea Jung

“It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.”

I Can Play Mother Father Hurt Happened Football Daughter My Daughter It Hurts Because I Can Mother Daughter

Author:Ray Rice

“It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.”

People Men Mother Daughter Majority Pops Working Man

Author:Barry Gibb

“It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.”

Children Mother Months Six Married Spring Daughter England Disappear My Children My Daughter Village Composer Six Months New England Persephone Small Villages

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.”

Want Years Ideas Stories Home Mother Baby Daughter Coming Home Pregnancy Pregnant Thrust

Author:Todd Solondz

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