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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.