Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Copy QuoteA father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
Copy Quote View & ShareA father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
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