“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.” ShouldLittlesMadeStillsMotherFatherParentHalfGenerationsExampleMomDadTerribleFeministDinnerCooksSplitsHouseholdChoresMom And DadHousehold Chores Author:Emily Oster
“My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.” YearsKindStoriesFatherLeftGermanyImmigrantsHouseholdDrsNaziRefugeeIconsNazi GermanySuccess StoriesKissinger Author:Eugene Jarecki
“When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.” IfsWantedMotherFatherBornWealthLet MeIf I CouldHouseholdDisguise Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.” WorldCharacterHomeLife IsFatherDifficultHoursRoomsObjectsHabitSacredCommunicateWork OutMysteriousOccupationHouseholdImmenseMarvelousTranscendenceAdventurousPrestigeEmbodiment Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.” FatherGrewGrew UpItalianHouseholdAdopted Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.
“I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.” BookEndsRememberReadingFatherWindGrewGrew UpDependentExceptionHospitalsHouseholdBoastStepmothersWind In The Willows Author:John le Carre
“Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president.” LoveHas BeensRunningFightingFatherJesusPresidentChristMomJesus ChristRaisedHouseholdSingle Mom Author:Ted Cruz