"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner"
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That deadpan normalcy becomes a kind of pressure chamber when you remember Brite’s brand: gothic transgression, outsider eroticism, bodies and identities that don’t want to be managed. The subtext is a quiet dare: here is the tidy, middle-class infrastructure I came from; now watch what I do with it. Economics and financial planning, in particular, carry an extra irony. They’re disciplines built on prediction and control, on turning human chaos into models. Brite’s fiction tends to make a sport of blowing up models.
There’s also an intent to complicate the lazy myth that dark art only comes from visibly “broken” origins. By foregrounding parents who sound competent, educated, and stable, Brite clears space for a more unsettling idea: alienation isn’t always a crisis, sometimes it’s a mismatch. The quote frames a childhood not as trauma narrative, but as a backdrop of polished normality against which difference becomes louder, sharper, and harder to explain away.
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| Topic | Family |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Brite, Poppy Z. (2026, January 16). My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-mother-is-an-office-manager-my-father-a-93001/
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Brite, Poppy Z. "My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-mother-is-an-office-manager-my-father-a-93001/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-mother-is-an-office-manager-my-father-a-93001/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
