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“And I hope that you’ll never get it into your head that just because a woman deserves every opportunity you do, you have to stop holding the door open for her when you can. That you’ll never think it’s impossible to be equals and behave like a gentleman at the same time.” (Things My Son Needs to Know about the World Quotes)
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“And I hope that you’ll never get it into your head that just because a woman deserves every opportunity you do, you have to stop holding the door open for her when you can.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“And I’ve noticed that you’ve already learned that your ability to make her laugh largely determines your chances of being able to get away with stuff you’ve messed up. Hold on to that skill.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“Because we spent so long being the biggest narcissists in world history before we became parents and realized how unimportant we really were.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“Having kids is in many ways like trying to drive a bulldozer through a china shop. With broken legs. Wearing a back-to-front ski mask. While drunk.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“I want you to always remember that you can become whatever you want to become, but that’s nowhere near as important as knowing that you can be exactly who you are.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“I want you to always remember that you can become whatever you want to become, but that’s nowhere near as important as knowing that you can be exactly who you are. I hope I was just the dysfunctional prototype.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“I’m just saying that this whole process of getting a child’s outerwear on in the morning is a bit like trying to put an angry monkey who has just been dipped in soap and fed jalapeños into a complete ice hockey goalkeeper’s uniform.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“I’ve done what I can to teach you to never feel threatened by strong women. I married the strongest one I’ve ever met.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“Never go to a game of anything and shout, “You’re playing like a woman!” at an athlete, as though that word were the definition of weakness. One day, you’ll be holding a woman’s hand as she gives birth and then that’ll make you feel more ashamed than you’ve ever felt about anything. Words matter. Be better.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“Regardless of how many shortcomings the person you fall in love with might have, I can guarantee that you still come out on top of that bargain. So find someone who doesn’t love you for the person you are, but despite the person you are.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“So find someone who doesn’t love you for the person you are, but despite the person you are.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“The realization that you will, from that moment on, draw all your breaths through someone else’s lungs hits you harder when you aren’t prepared.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
“There is plenty that can be said about your grandfathers’ generation of men, but they wouldn’t have had time to learn about everything in the world if the women of their generation hadn’t taken care of everything else while they did.”
Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
