Tu Youyou Quotes

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

I was the youngest of six, with four older sisters.

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

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.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

I have two brothers and a sister. I am the youngest in the family and was a bit of a tom boy.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

I come from a home where my mother was the only emotional umbrella under which we found all the warmth and comforts and sustenance. My father would come and go, and not as often as we'd want him to.