Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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