Boundaries Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

— Graeme Simsion

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do…

— Lucy Alibar

When I spoke with psychoanalysts, they confirmed to me that the most neurotic relationship is always between mother and daughter. The cliché is to…

— Francois Ozon

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

— Ben Jonson

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

— Steve Buscemi

We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views…

— Augustus Napier

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

— James E. Faust

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked…

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him…

— Kurt Cobain

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

— Warren Farrell

I share a very cordial relationship with my father's side of the family.

— Nagma