Dionne Warwick Quotes

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

To every little girl her father is a hero.

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.

My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

People get messed up because they have a million guys they have to take care of. I don't have that.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

When Mahesh is not around for weeks together, I have to take care of everything - kids, home. But the fact that I am able to survive and not feel alone is very challenging. It's about a healthy companionship and being true to each other.

As a doctor, I was aware that when children go through severe trauma, they shouldn't see their parents completely disintegrate because subconsciously, that tells them they have no one to take care of them.

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

Cyborg was the first superhero that I've ever seen whose parent was around but just was not there for him emotionally, mentally. I related to that in a big way because, growing up, it was my mother and grandmother that raised me and my brother and sisters. I'm the second youngest of five; my father was never in the picture.

I grew up without a father figure.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

My formative years were all shaped by a mother who was very sad and had a drinking problem, while my father was lonely and angry. He was an Episcopal priest and raised four kids on his own.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.