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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

—Robert Frost, 1939

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

—August Strindberg, 1886

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC