“As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding.” GivingLastsFatherNamesWhiteIssuesGrewHusbandGrew UpDressesFeministPlentyVowBridesIdentifying Author:Jessica Valenti
“My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.” YearsBornExistenceDemocracyGrewHusbandGrew UpEuropeTwentiesMovedVariousIsraelExperimentsMy HusbandDictatorshipSocialistBrazilUtopianFilthy Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.” LooksChildrenKidsYoungLeftCommonGrewHusbandMarriedGrew UpAbandonedGetting MarriedYoung ChildrenCommon Things Author:Dacia Maraini
“I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.” LooksWaterMemoriesRolesGrewLuckyHusbandMajorsGrew UpMy FriendsIdealsRoseProfessionArcadiaIdeal Husband Author:Samantha Bond
“My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.” WayFirstsBelieveMotherFatherJesusBrotherGrewMomHusbandGrew UpExesNunFranciscans Author:John Fugelsang
“I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The Four Agreements, A Return to Love, and The Power of Now helped me to overcome many internal battles. Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children” PeopleChildrenBookValuesReadingFourGrewReturnRight NowBattleHusbandGrew UpToughOvercomingSouthIncludingWelfareInternalsNeighborhoodAgreementMy HusbandReading BooksSupportiveUpbringingPower Of NowBronxFour Agreements Author:Andrea Navedo
“I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.” WayYearsKidsHateGrewMomColdDadHusbandNormalGrew UpMy DadMy MomWeatherMy HusbandSkiingCold Weather Author:Julie Bowen
“I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York and Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and I asked her about a woman leaving her husband. I asked her about how she would feel about that woman, and my mother grew up in the Church Of God In Christ, and she told me that the woman might be isolated because the other women thought she might go and come after their husbands. That's how they thought then.” FeelsMightMotherGrowsChristChurchGrowing UpNew YorkGrewHusbandGrew UpLeavingIsolated1930sHarlem Author:Denzel Washington
“My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.” KnowsHomeFatherParentPerfectBoysKnow HowBrotherGrewHusbandGrew UpMy BrotherRoughMuch LoveBronxPerfect Husband Author:Hope Solo