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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

—August Strindberg, 1886

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

—Albert Camus, 1942

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

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

—Tecumseh, 1810

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

—Philip Roth, 1969

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

—Gertrude Stein, 1940

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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.

—Mencius, c. 270 BC
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