family Quotes

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.