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“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”

Source: Robert Frost on writing

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”

Source: Robert Frost on writing

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.”

People Children Home Today Father Family Nuclear Absent Schooled Nuclear Families

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”

Ifs Father Causes Brain Family Break Caught Damage Marijuana

Author:Tom Dreesen

“It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler”

Guy Fall Father Family Figures Crosses Editors Arthur Father Figure

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.”

Knows Care Father Family Know How Son

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.”

Use Father Love Is Family Wife Husband Abuse Insane Knees My Husband Palms Folds Walnuts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.”

Source: Childhood's Future