Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

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

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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

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

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