Father Quotes by Terry Gross

Terry Gross

And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father’s attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

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Terry Gross

I don’t think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don’t think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or – you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.

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Terry Gross

My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it – I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time – when was a young lieutenant – he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.

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Terry Gross

So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

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Terry Gross

You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.

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