"Almost every bachelor, boyfriend, suitor, and husband in the world started out as some girl’s annoying little kid brother, and every one of those girls played a part in what kind of man he became.
When we’re tempted to bemoan the fact that the men are not rising up to where we think they should be, we should seriously ask ourselves if we’ve been doing everything we can to help our own men get there. Too many sisters spend their youth teaching their brothers to sit down, be quiet, stop asserting themselves, stay in their place, and take orders – only to grow up and wonder where to find a husband with guts and a backbone. The ones who pushed down their own brothers now pray fervently that somewhere out there, there were some sisters who did not do the same to theirs."
~ Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin
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