Quotes by Patti Davis

Patti Davis

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America ‘are homeless by choice’?

America

Father

Sleep

Alzheimer’s disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

Alzheimer's

Doors

Locks

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.

Country

Father

Taken

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope – nothing else.

Absence

False Hope

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Broken Heart

Broken Promises

Vision

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.

Eye

Father

Heart

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

Cells

Offering

Taken

I did what most writers do when something happens that’s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn’t know what else to do about it except write about it.

Bedtime

Moving

Writing

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.

Believe

Order

Thinking

I grew up in this era where your parents’ friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

Couple

Holiday

Uncles

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Quotes by Patti Davis

Patti Davis

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America ‘are homeless by choice’?

Alzheimer’s disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

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.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope – nothing else.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

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.

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

I did what most writers do when something happens that’s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn’t know what else to do about it except write about it.

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 grew up in this era where your parents’ friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

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