A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Quotes
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978It’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, 1966In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Nobody, 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, 1815Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC