Barbara Holland Quotes

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

Barbara Holland

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• My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Angry
  • Afraid
  • Fathers