Family Honesty Quotes

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

We're definitely honest with each other... if your sisters can't tell you that you look ridiculous, who can?

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.

I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!

My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.