We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.
ATTRIBUTION:
Anne Taylor Fleming (20th century), U.S. author and essayist. Motherhood Deferred, ch. 2 (1994).
