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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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