Behind Every Good Man

by Sara Goodman Confino

With anyone else, I would have beaten around the bush, but I think that’s the true definition of friendship—where you can ask absolutely anything with no qualifying information needed.

wanted her to see that she could do anything, be anything, from a wife and mother to an astronaut.

the doors that had been locked for my mother’s generation were merely shut firmly for me. And by the time Debbie grew up, I wanted them open, so she could walk right through, to whatever future she wanted. Because she deserved to be the person she wanted to be, not just who the world expected her to be.