Aimee Bender Quotes

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

I did read Indian scriptures when we could get the English versions, but the problem was I never took the time to learn the language. Really, what it comes down to is that I knew the emotion of faith; I knew what my parents were trying to teach me, but we always said 'No' when my mom was trying to teach us Punjabi.

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

I've never read one book about my father.

I'm the father of four daughters.

There's definitely something to the 'Daddy's girl' thing - my daughter can have her way with me pretty easily.

When I told my father about Samantha, he simply laughed and said that he is happy and that he already knew about our love story.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

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. That's fascinating to me. I've had a lot of very interesting parenting techniques that I've employed with my own daughter that have worked really well, so far.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

My relationship with my daughter is gonna affect her relationship with men for the rest of her life... Sometimes I'm walking with my daughter. I'm pushing her in the stroller, and sometimes I just pick her up and stare at her, and I realize, my only job in life is to keep her off the pole.

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

The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.