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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

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

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.

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. 

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