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“My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.”

Men Way Country Together Father Taught Lessons Daughter Dear Wisest Fathers Day Dear Friend Wisest Man

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

“The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.”

I Can Wish Teach Son Lessons Daughter My Daughter My Son Strongest

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”

Loses Teach Laughing Forever Lessons Daughter Innocence My Daughter Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.”

Source: The Lost Hours

“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”

“I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.”

Trying Mother Parent Influence Media Son Lessons Messages Daughter Concerned Mother Daughter Instill Insidious Son And Daughter

Author:John Ratzenberger