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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

—H.L. Mencken, 1919

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain, c. 1900

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

—V.S. Pritchett, 1968

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

—Paul Johnson, 1989

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

—Mario Puzo, 2001

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

—Rebecca West, 1959

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
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