“A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.” IfsEyeFatherWhiteForgetPayMarriageVisionArmsHusbandResourcesDatingLovelyCleverCarrieComplimentSailMistressSurveysManlyAisleSurrogatesNew Father Author:Germaine Greer
“The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.” MenSaidFatherMarriageBrotherMinistersInsultCeremonyTransactionsMarriage Ceremony Author:Nellie L. McClung
“Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.” LoveMadeMotherFatherMarriageMiseryErrors Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.” ChildrenSelfFatherInterestPerfectMarriageStruggleBecomingOur ChildrenConstantLimitationYour ChildrenUrgesFatherhoodSelf InterestGood FatherConstant StruggleBecoming A FatherPerfect Father Author:Kent Nerburn