Archive — April, 2008

“This has been a learning curve for my father. I will never forget when I was in about my mid to upper twenties, and I was struggling through in some relationship and my dad said to me, he said, ‘Honey, your generation makes it so confusing…When I got married, your mother, she was beautiful. She was from a family of five and so was I. I thought she’d make a good wife and mother, and she was Baptist, and that was it.’” - Connally Gilliam

“I have been asked in a number of different settings, so, ‘Why aren’t you married?’ And it is one of those questions you never quite know what to do with because I think there really is a compliment implicit in it, but it is very easy to feel like, gosh, you are doing or you are being something wrong.” - Connally Gilliam

“I think in Christian culture, single men are a more valued commodity (than single women) because they are rarer. It is supply and demand, if you will, and there is something intrinsically then that ups the value, I think, of single men.” - Connally Gilliam