Bigs Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

— Sigmund Freud

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

— Marquise Goodwin

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman…

— Adrienne Rich

My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he…

— Mike Nichols

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

— Bruce Springsteen

At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father. It…

— Scottie Pippen

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

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his…

— Robert Lepage

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still…

— Hope Solo

Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater effect on…

— Mamoru Hosoda

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed…

— Judy Garland

It was really complicated, I used to think 'who is my dad?' My downfall has been not having the that father figure and attachment…

— Kerry Katona