Echoes From Someone Else's Life

No doubt Hep loved his children; the warmhearted letters he wrote them throughout his life attest to that. And he wasn't always so serious or driven...But none of the Hepburn offspring could ever remember him saying that they'd made him proud. He demanded the moon and never seemed satisfied even when it was delivered. Once his daughter Marion asked him why that was. "I expect you to do well," he replied. "That's the norm."...As they entered their teens, what continued to motivate the Hepburn children's fierce desire to please was the plain and simple emotion of fear. Fear of their father's disapproval, of the sting of his hand.