Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Quotes
To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954It’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.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942