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“A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.”

“Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”

“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”

“Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.”

“There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”

“There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.”

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”

“The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!”

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

“New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.”