And what about your dad? Was he a great man? Or is it just a woman`s job to be a 'great woman'?
Sorry love, I don`t know much about you, but reading from what you write it seems that you believe men are somehow superior to women. I could be very wrong, and I apologise in advance.
It sounds, if she can be believed to be rational, that she is giving her mother the credit for bring superior , as somehow it was in the mother's power to control her husband's behavior, who was malleable. That is, if her summary of the married life of two adults can be taken at face value. Some people who are skeptics might read that and think she is sugar coating things, symplifying the issue, or even in some stepford la la land .