Behind Every Good Man

by Sara Goodman Confino

Yes, I could likely scare Larry into fidelity with enough overspending and time sleeping on Nancy’s sofa. But what kind of marriage was that?

“It probably would have helped him secure some working-class votes—if you didn’t spoil that by making a scene about how inappropriate working is. Come on, Mama, it’s 1962.”

behind every good man is an even better woman.”

“Beverly, you do what it takes. If I teach you nothing else, you learn that. You do what you need to do to survive.”

“Mama told me once that behind every good man was an even better woman,” I said quietly. Anna turned to look at me. “You know full well he wouldn’t be anywhere without you. And Michael wouldn’t be here without me. It seems a shame to just let them make all the decisions after we put them in the room.”

“He said that his charge to us wasn’t just to change the world, but to fix it. And he told us to look at ourselves in the mirror every single morning and ask ourselves what we were going to do to make the world better that day.”

believe in anymore, they just want to know that you believe in something. Besides, Jesus was Jewish.”