family Quotes

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.