Mary Karr Quotes

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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.

I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.

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

A man can never compete with a woman's father

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 considered myself one of the boys. My brothers didn't spoil me at all, not at all. I was very tomboyish. It wasn't as if I was like a princess or anything like that.

My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

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.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

Anybody that knows me knows that I'm definitely a guy's girl.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

Peers often matter more than parents.

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

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.