Began Calling

Famous quotes containing the words began and/or calling:

    In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has had less authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.
    Frank Pittman (20th century)

    Yes.
    It’s May 20th and the leaves,
    green, green, wearing their masks
    and speaking, calling out their Sapphic loves,
    are here—here—here—
    calling out their death wish:
    “A Annenne, come to us.”
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)