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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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.

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

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