2022-11-28 Mon 15:24 PM > [!-cf-]+ [[Related notes]] > - [[Ref. Mary Gordon 1980 - The Company of Women]] ![[moses_a_boy_with_dark_hair_hazel_eyes_a_few_freckles_8_years_ol_39f090cf-968f-4e0a-96e7-0bd8e0e1d6d6.png]] Original quote: > I suspect that being fatherless leaves a woman with a taste for the fanatical. Having grown unsheltered, having never seen in the familiar flesh the embodiment of the ancient image of authority, a girl can be satisfied only with the heroic, the desperate, the extreme. A fatherless girl thinks all things possible and nothing safe. > —Mary Gordon, 2013. *The Company of Women: A Novel* (p. 336) Popularized by Anderson Cooper when his mother died in 2019. Originally came to me via my friend Alice, who shared this beautiful conversation about [[Productive grief|grief]] between Cooper and Stephen Colbert. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YB46h1koicQ?si=b8VDRNRuPbLtjt-c" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>