Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897Quotes
Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIn our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978By 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, 1955Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940