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I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

—Virgil, c. 25 BC

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

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

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

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.

—August Strindberg, 1886

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

—André Gide, 1897

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

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

—Philip Roth, 1969

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

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

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

—Pope John Paul II, 1986

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

—Gertrude Stein, 1940
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