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

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

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

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

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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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