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.Gloria Steinem
We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.Gloria Steinem
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.Gloria Steinem
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.Alan Watts
I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.Audrey Hepburn
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.Niccolo Machiavelli