Rebecca Stead Quotes

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

I've never read one book about my father.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

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.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

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

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very early. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. It was something in order to empower myself.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

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

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

You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.

Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.

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 man can never compete with a woman's father

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