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“My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.”

Father Women Died

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.”

Mother Father Women

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.”

Thinking Men Father Felt Women Pride Sexism

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.”

“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.”

Thinking Ideas Hard Light Age Spiritual Young Religion Father Process Women Voice Water Answers Television Intellectual Conversion Young Age Deities Bishops Pouring Catechism Blinding Light

Author:Susan Jacoby