Fathers

Famous quotes containing the word fathers:

“The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“This last pain for the damned the Fathers found:
“They knew the bliss with which they were not crowned.””
—William Empson (1906–1984)

“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)