A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The Family! Home of all social evils, a charitable institution for indolent women, a prison workshop for the slaving breadwinner, and a hell for children.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in living, closed doors, jealous protectors of happiness.

Everyone has a family tree; the Dawsons have one, it's a weeping willow.

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.