Jill Lepore Quotes

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

I have a big family full of massive personalities so i just sit there most of the time great fun to listen to their stories.

As the Japanese family gets more and more atomized, grandparents don't live with the nuclear family, so parents of children can't consult with their own parents about how to raise their children and rely on that to help raise them.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.