--- title: "1 Multiple Generations Quotes By Katie Hafner" description: "1 Multiple Generations quotes by Katie Hafner. Plus more from Katie Hafner and more Multiple Generations sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aac/katie-hafner-41251_daughter_stately-and-commanding-the-house-i-found_269083.jpg" --- > [“Stately and commanding, the house I found on Sacramento Street, in Lower Pacific Heights, was an architectural jewel; tour buses drove down the street several times a day and the guides pointed out our Victorian “painted lady” not just for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/stately-and-commanding-the-house-i-found-on-sacramento-street-in/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aac/katie-hafner-41251_daughter_stately-and-commanding-the-house-i-found_269083.jpg) ## More by Katie Hafner > [“Doing a geographic” is a term alcoholics often use for acting on the impulse to start over by moving to a new town, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/doing-a-geographic-is-a-term-alcoholics-often-use-for-acting-on-the/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“My mother has always loved piano music and hungered to play. When she was in her early sixties, she retired from her job as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/my-mother-has-always-loved-piano-music-and-hungered-to-play-when-she/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“Suddenly life was good, even glamorous. We were poor but didn’t know it, or maybe we did know, but we didn’t care, because my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/suddenly-life-was-good-even-glamorous-we-were-poor-but-didn-t-know-it/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“Stately and commanding, the house I found on Sacramento Street, in Lower Pacific Heights, was an architectural jewel; tour buses drove down the street…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/stately-and-commanding-the-house-i-found-on-sacramento-street-in/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“But today I'm indifferent. And with this comes a glimmer of understanding: I can pick and choose what I absorb and what I deflect.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/but-today-i-m-indifferent-and-with-this-comes-a-glimmer-of/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New York, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/when-i-was-five-and-sarah-seven-my-mother-went-on-a-trip-she-was-gone/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“I usually enjoy setting up a new kitchen, but this has become a joyless and highly charged task. My mother and I each have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/i-usually-enjoy-setting-up-a-new-kitchen-but-this-has-become-a/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“That night, I take Wallerstein's book from my bedside table and re-read something she mentioned only in passing: the ambivalence that many adult children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/that-night-i-take-wallerstein-s-book-from-my-bedside-table-and-re/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“It’s one thing when you plug into a socket in the wall and electrons flow,” said Bob Kahn. “It’s another thing when you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/it-s-one-thing-when-you-plug-into-a-socket-in-the-wall-and-electrons/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) > [“For years, whenever I told people about my childhood but assured them that my mother and I were now close, that I held no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hafner/for-years-whenever-i-told-people-about-my-childhood-but-assured-them/) [Katie Hafner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hafner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/multiple-generations/katie-hafner/#itemlist", "name": "1 Multiple Generations Quotes By Katie Hafner", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Stately and commanding, the house I found on Sacramento Street, in Lower Pacific Heights, was an architectural jewel; tour buses drove down the street several times a day and the guides pointed out our Victorian “painted lady” not just for its curb appeal but also for its lucky survival of the earthquake. Meticulously renovated, the house had a layout that I was sure would work perfectly: a three-room suite on the lower level with a bathroom and laundry room for my mother, living space on the next level, and, on the top floor, bedrooms for Zoë and me. The master bedroom was large enough to double as my office. Moreover, it seemed symbolic that we should find a three-story nineteenth-century Victorian, whose original intention was to house multiple generations. My mother couldn’t have been more pleased. She started calling our experiment “our year in Provence.” In the face of naysayers, I chose to embrace the reaction of a friend who was living in Beijing: “How Chinese of you!” she said upon hearing the news. When I told my mother, she was delighted. “What have the Chinese got on us?” she declared. And I agreed. The Chinese revere their elderly. 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