“It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says.' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas.! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.” ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsLongStatesCultureFatherChurchPathOne DayLong TimeLikesOptimisticAspireAlright Author:Sandra Cisneros
“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?” WantFeelsKindLongHas BeensCertainFatherStuffInterestingChildhoodReturnDramaElementsLong TimeGet AwayExhaustedLong Time AgoFamily Drama Author:Sam Shepard
“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.” LongCountryFatherDoubtToo MuchReadyLong TimeEnglandNo DoubtDepressingCheerfulCheerfulnessFrancoFatheringTrotsky Author:Gertrude Stein
“My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.” YearsLongSaidFatherChristChurchLong TimeMinistersOne WordReally MeanAmenGod Is LovePentecostal Author:Denzel Washington
“When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.” FirstsLongDoePoliticalActorsFatherSocialActingResponsibilityTaughtLong TimeIntellectualConscienceProfessionAccepted Author:Christopher Reeve