Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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.

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

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