Aisha Tyler Quotes

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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

People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.

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 grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

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.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.