“My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.” ThinkingMenChildrenTwoFatherBlackSawsSeeingTreeStreetsBusinessmanVagrants Author:Toni Morrison
“Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father - and that is reiterated in TM's diary queries about "how two men can sleep together".” MenTwoDifferentTogetherFormFatherSexSleepSawsAttractionHomosexualityDiariesLiberatedQueries Author:Philip Kitcher
“Americans were in love with mesmerism because it was something that you could do in your own home. You could mesmerize or hypnotize your aunt or your mother or your father and people would go into these trance states and you could introduction autosuggestions tot hem or as some people saw it, you could cure them of illnesses.” PeopleStatesHomeMotherFatherSawsIllnessCuresAuntIntroductionTranceHemTots Author:Mitch Horowitz
“While I completely disagree with the "purity" concept, it was the only place I saw fathers talking to girls about their expectations and attitudes to sex and expressing love and support. I didn't see liberal dads having similar conversations with their daughters.” GirlFatherSexAttitudeTalkingSupportSawsDadConversationExpectationsDaughterConceptsPurityDisagreeExpressing Love Author:Peggy Orenstein
“My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldJobsFatherOpportunitySawsGrewGrew UpEnglandTownsYeahUniversityNew WorldCoalBetter LifeMiningTextilesCoal MiningBradford Author:Aasif Mandvi