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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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.

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

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.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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

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