“My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.” MotherFatherMarriedDeterminationDignityTwentiesEightLoyaltyThirtyFierceUnyieldingSteadiness Author:Jill Lepore
“In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.” NeedsGivingHumansRealCareAgeFatherChurchModernMiddleSubjectsReturnKingsRemainsProtectionLoyaltyHopefullyHuman LifeSubstitutesProtectedShelterMiddle Ages Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.” KnowsWantTryingChildrenFatherStruggleChildhoodStyleIdentityBattleOur ChildrenVictimForgivingLoyaltyRangeFierceOur FatherLearn To ForgiveParenting Styles Author:Augustus Napier