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My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Acid Break Business Dress Enough Even Face Family Father Feminine Had Hard Hint Me Mother Muddy Never Opportunity Played Providing Rivals Rules Scandal Throw Toy

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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Above Been By The Time Cable Coffee Courtship Daddy Day Father Fellow Fiction Get Had Having Iowa Lawyer Lunch Office Saying Sent Shop Student Time Wedding Where Workshop You Mrs

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I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Always Another Back Best Coming Depression Era Father Feel Glorious Knows Looking Looking Back People See Who I Can

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I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.

~Big Boi

Topics: Child Chose Father Glad Man One Of The Things Things

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I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Between Dear Doing Family Father Feel Kids Like Love Me Mother Near Subject Where

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James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

~Bill Callahan

Topics: Apparently Being Father Fiction He James Like Saddle

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While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

~Bill De Blasio

Topics: Battling Been Cancer Clear Emerge Ended Family Father His Life Media Now Part Private Soon Story Terminal Tragically While Will

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Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Back Converted Died Dominican Republic Dusty Father Grew His Hospital Juan Public Republic San Town Up Without

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John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Deaf Family Father Garden Glenn Help Home Injuries John Known Mostly Out Over Sold Town War World World War World War I Young

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My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

~Bill Foster

Topics: Actually Chemist Chemistry Degree Father Got He Stanford

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