Quotes About Family

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.