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“I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.”

Made Strong Social Class Middle Daughter Wave Middle Class Immigrants Individualism Grandparent Argentina Mobility Social Mobility

Author:Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”

“I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.”

Ends Character Stories Used Middle Daughter My Daughter Main Characters Crayon

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.”

People Looks Has Beens School Desire Class Middle Achieve Members Daughter Advantage Revolutionary Kitchen Middle Class Good School Upper Middle Class Kitchen Sinks

Author:Rebecca West

“One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.”

Ifs Dream Mother Strong Force Realizing Middle Achieve Happenings Daughter East Progressive Middle East Harem

Author:Fatema Mernissi

“My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.”

May Doe Kids Names Strong Five Wife Middle Style Moon Band Musician Daughter Direct Unions Surprise My Daughter Banjos

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.”

Kids Wonder Middle Particular Daughter Obsessed Superhero Wonder Woman Kids Love

Author:Mark Millar

“The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like to spend your watch looking for the box where your head is kept, resist the urge to wax ignorant on her naughty bits." -Pocket I don't know what that means, sir." -Yeoman Speak not of Regan's shaggacity, son" [...] -Pocket”

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Book:Fool: A Novel

Source: Fool: A Novel

“I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she.'" "What did she say?" "She hit me on the head with the rock again," Ford responded curtly. "I think i can confirm that was my daughter." "Sweet kid." "You have to get to know her," said Arthur. "She eases up, does she?" "No, but you get a better sense of when to duck.”

“I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.”

Has Beens Important School Faces Mother Parent Challenges Issues Middle Internet Daughter Safety Teenager My Daughter Visiting Middle School Important Issues

Author:Melissa Bean

“I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?”

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Author:Joely Richardson

“I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.”

Inspirational Mother Games Class Middle Daughter Former Middle Class My Daughter Softball Housewife

Author:Charlaine Harris

“I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.”

Believe Made I Can Kids School Mother Given Parent Challenges My Own Middle Objects Projects Daughter My Daughter Can Not Homework Runway Recycled Preschool Project Runway

Author:Busy Philipps

“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