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The most
socially subversive institution of our time is the
one-parent family.
-- Paul Johnson
1928-, British Journalist
Parents and
children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to
appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the
parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to
their children.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
The roaring of
the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane
are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty
in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic
happiness.
-- John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet
The
proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many
Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a
grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg
without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the
void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the
bosom of the American family.
-- Florence King
1936-, American Author,
Critic
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When I do
something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my
duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all
the people around me.
-- Dr. Jess Lair
American Professor, Counselor
A poor
relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of
impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a
haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in
the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
The family you
come from isn't as important as the family you're going to
have.
-- Ring Lardner
1885-1933, American Writer
With a new
familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of
this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is
coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly
captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby
called ''the Public,'' the family as it is, broken up on all
hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda,
reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.
-- Wyndham Lewis
1882-1957, British Author,
Painter
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