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

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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.