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My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

— Mary Gordon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

— P. L. Travers

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

— Olga Kurylenko

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

— Flea

Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

— Andrea Bocelli

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

— Samuel Butler

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

— Carol Leifer

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

— Kenyon Martin

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

— Laurence Fox

✗Opposing Perspectives

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

— Tom Stoppard

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

— Walter Mosley