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. Patti Davis Read Quote
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn’t have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person. Patti Davis Read Quote
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. Patti Davis Read Quote
You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself. Patti Davis Read Quote
I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They’re aware that they’re losing awareness, and you see them struggling. Patti Davis Read Quote
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is. Patti Davis Read Quote
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. Patti Davis Read Quote
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. I think he felt, ‘I don’t want to say something wrong.’ That’s my sense of it. Patti Davis Read Quote
