I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.
With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.
I don't know how consciously anyone looks for a father figure.