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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

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.

It’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.

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

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

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

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.