Judith Viorst Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Father, Hate

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

• [On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Children, Father

• Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes it safer to roam. With him as an ally--a love--it is safer, too, to show that we're mad when we're mad at our mother. We can hate and not be abandoned, hate and still love.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Father, Hate

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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