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My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

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

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

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

I have become my own father.