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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
Rebecca West1892–1983Letter (20 August 1959), as quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Rebecca West: A Life (1987), Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206
I can’t help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
- Children
- Forgiveness
Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Clever Jabs
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Men
- Women
Our government should not be run like a business; it should be run like a family. A business might rightfully put its short-term profits first, but a functional family puts the well-being of its children first.
Marianne Williamsonborn 1952Marianne Williamson: If We Want a Prosperous America Tomorrow, Take Care of Our Children Today, Newsweek (23 July 2020)
- Government
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won’t let me plug it in.
Henny Youngman1906–1998
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
Frank Zappa1940–1993“Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa”, in MOJO magazine (October 1993).
- Children