I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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Martha Gellhorn
I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.
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Mark Slouka
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that...
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Christopher Hitchens
How to raise sons who respect women: Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.
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Alfa H
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
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Marilynne Robinson
More Quotes By Rumaan Alam
Just reviewing this list, these to-dos and dones, her pace quickens; she feels lighter, she feels smarter, she feels in control, she feels alive.
His manners are old-fashioned, the work of a vigilant mother.
This body. This body Dan wanted to possess, and together they made a baby, asleep right now in the very next room. She tells herself that he's alive, that he's well, though some instinct in her tells her, every so often, that the baby is...
