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The family is
the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to
believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it
is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions
and become callous to injustice even if it is done to
ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of
authoritarian government.
-- Gloria Steinem
1934-, American Feminist
Writer, Editor
Family... the
home of all social evil, a charitable institution for
comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a
hell for children.
-- J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist,
Novelist, Poet
A family is a
place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil
of everyday living.
-- Charles Swindoll
American Pastor, Author
Lord, confound
this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister,
cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give
her.
-- J. M. Synge
1871-1909, Irish Poet,
Dramatist
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The hatred of
relatives is the most violent.
-- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
55-117 AD, Roman Historian
He that loves
not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and
broods a nest of sorrows.
-- Jeremy Taylor
1613-1667, British Churchman,
Writer
All happy
families resemble one another; every unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.
-- Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist,
Philosopher
Adam was the
luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
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