Richelle Mead Quotes

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.

A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

I've never read one book about my father.

It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

I think being the girl of such a huge father figure, you want to be that tomboy... because you are so close to your dad.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.