I wanted to ask which war---the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something.
John ChristopherStichwörter: generation-gap
We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...]
My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.
Stichwörter: life past present family history time existentialism development modernity chronology generation-gap build-up breakage
The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.
Susan Richards ShreveStichwörter: women generation-gap raising-children
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
George EliotStichwörter: parenthood generation-gap
John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
George EliotStichwörter: submission generation-gap
I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door")
Mrs. OliphantStichwörter: generation-gap
27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it.
Psyche Roxas-MendozaStichwörter: women sanity public-opinion generations privacy generation-gap stiff-upper-lip
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