Words matter. These are the best Patti Davis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Decades later I would look into my father’s eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer’s with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father’s war, and almost everyone in Nicaragua has lost somebody as a result of it. I couldn’t go down there, being his daughter, and expect not to feel those people’s wrath.
I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the ’60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
Puppies, like all babies, grow up fast. Before long, Gracie was no longer barking at her reflection, instead offering a blase look that seemed to say, ‘I know what that is now. I know it’s not another dog.’
You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.
My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn’t express your opinions. But it’s the way in which you express them. And for me to do – to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn’t right. And it – there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer’s started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer’s are the hardest because that person is aware that they’re losing awareness. And I think that that’s why my father started growing more and more quiet.
Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.
I don’t think it’s an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
I’m very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that’s difficult if you’re writing in the third person.
Politics isn’t what defines a person, and it shouldn’t define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: ‘We did something wrong.’ But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.
I certainly support anyone’s prerogative to hire or not hire whomever they choose, and I definitely don’t want to work for someone who doesn’t want me.
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what’s happening environmentally.
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.
I needed to run away in order to come home.
I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, ‘You should have a backup career,’ so I thought, ‘OK, I’ll act.’ That was the foolishness of my vision for my life – that my backup career would be completely undependable.
You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.
It’s one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the ‘in sickness and in health’ part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you’re tested. Your resilience is tested.
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father’s funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer’s is concerned, we don’t have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
Commerce is abusive. It’s very hobbling to always be saying, ‘Please let me put this out, this thing I’ve worked on for years.’ It’s like a nasty parent saying, ‘No! Now go to your room.’ As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
I’m not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s – a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He’s like a stately old cathedral to me now.
I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.