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Patti Davis Biography

Patti Davis (born Patricia Ann Reagan; October 21, 1952) is an American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004) and his second wife, First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan (1921–2016).

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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.

Alzheimer'S, Cells, Father, Funeral, National, Proof

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, Hope, Nothing, Thing

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

Order, Parent, Finding Yourself, Parents, Separate

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.

Act, Careers, Foolishness, People, Should Have, Vision

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

America, Brother, Rivalry, Sibling

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever. . childhood wounds were left.

Childhood, Clean, Thought, Would Be

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

Grieving, Memories, Process, Running, Straight

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.

Assemble, Father, Glasses, Shoe, Shoes, Tiny

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

Alzheimer'S, Doors, Exits, Locks

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.

Aunt, Couple, Holiday, Uncle, Uncles

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

Love, People, Think, Thinking, Way

[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, People, Ronald, Sleep, Sleeping

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

Feels, Long, People, Thinking, Unique

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

Heart, Legacy, Earth, Touched, Hearts

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

Father, Lying, Moving, Stone, Think, Tomb

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, Flung, Offering, Point, Taken, Years

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.

Father, Feelings, Like, Soft, Take, Want

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

Day, Motherhood, People, Thinking

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, Hoping, Look, Murkiness

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Environmentally, Political, Problem, Problems, Think, Thinking

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