We will be having new curtains. Anna thinks we should. It will be a good idea to find a new house. And the ultimate line, the final word. No one in the family argues with that.
All men retreat to workshop corners.
Even the old women defer to that opinion. As a small boy I accepted without question this cosmology of feminine dominance over a home centered universe. It suited me well. My father and uncles never complained. You did that and your children honored you.