Candace Bushnell Quotes

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

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

For me, the relationship with my father is the most important thing that I have.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.

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

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

I was a daddy's girl.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.