Quotes About Family

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

My mom took up belly dancing. In order to make it appear like she was moving, my father and I had to jiggle the furniture in back of her.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

Most turkeys taste better the day after. My mother's tasted better the day before.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Mommy gets up to give you a glass of water in the middle of the night. Mom invites your friends inside when it's raining. Mama burns your ears with the hot comb to make your hair look pretty for class picture day. Ma is sore and worn out from wringing your wet clothes and hanging them to dry; Ma needs peace and quiet at the end of the day. We don't have one of those. We have a statement of fact.

I didn't want to say Big Ma was right. Cecile was no kind of mother. Cecile didn't want us. Cecile was crazy. I didn't have to.

She refused to call Fern by her name, and that made Big Ma right about Cecile.

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Rita Williams-Garcia

Marx never had a steady income or a permanent job or a bank account… But what he couldn't earn for his own family, he won for Millions of others through his writings…

This situation changed with the patriarchal family and even more with the monogamous individual family. The administration of the household lost its public character. It was no longer the concern of society. It became private service. The wife became the first domestic servant, pushed out of participation in social production.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman; and modern society is a mass composed solely of individual families as its molecules. Today, in the great majority of cases, the man has to be the earner, the breadwinner of the family, at least among the propertied classes, and this gives him a dominating position which requires no special legal privileges. In the family, he is the bourgeois; the wife represents the proletariat.

the worker works to live. What he earns goes into keeping his family alive, and so he passes the

Your legacy among family and friends shall resemble a blank page while you remain silent when others threaten our constitutional values.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

Sometimes life is just the WORS, y'know? Sometimes it can be hard as hell. All you can do is ride it out, and maybe. . . focus on the things you love? The people you love? And just kind of. . . hang on. With both hands.

Sometimes life is just the WORST, y'know? Sometimes it can be hard as hell. All you can do is ride it out, and maybe. . . focus on the things you love? The people you love? And just kind of. . . hang on. With both hands.