The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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