Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled, contained. To the women I knew, a family was everything.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
family, fatherhood, feminism, growing-up-growing-pains, motherhood