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.

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

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.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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.

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

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

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

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