Fathers

Famous quotes containing the word fathers:

    “Mothers risk alienating their mates if they expect them to hold or care for the baby exactly as they do. Fathers who are constantly criticized or corrected may lose interest in handling the baby, and this is a loss for everyone. The cycle is a dangerous one. Now the same mother feels bitter because she is no longer getting any help at home.”
    —Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)

    “Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government, and consequent prosperity. No oppressed, people will fight, and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)