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I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

— Diane Hendricks

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

— Peter Agre

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

— Al Jardine

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

— Jack O'Connell

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

— Sam Brownback

I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

— Tim Daly

We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

— Joseph Mawle

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

— Tim Daly

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

— Glen Taylor

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

— Bjork

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

— Joanne Froggatt