Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

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

My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.

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

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

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

A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.

Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I'm obsessed with my parents.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.

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

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

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

Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.