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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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.