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

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

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 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.

—Robert Frost, 1939

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

—Susan Sontag, 1977

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

—André Gide, 1897

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Friedrich Schiller, 1781
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