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

—Albert Camus, 1942

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781

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

—André Gide, 1897

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

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

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

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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