Family Myth Quotes

#1. We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

Andrea Dworkin

#2. To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

Robert Heilbroner

#3. We read, we travel, we become.

Derek Walcott

#4. As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V.S. Pritchett

#6. Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

Charles Burnett

#7. Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

E. V. Lucas

#8. The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

Steve Fowler

#9. The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#10. Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the side. She sold these from a stall in Kota Bharu. Her main wares were various types of fruit fried in batter, but if you bought five pisang or cempedak goreng, she threw in a jampi for free.

Zen Cho

#11. She's hot and cold, but damn, when she's hot, it's scorching, and when she's cold, it's arctic.

K. Bromberg

#12. It was a myth that every mother and daughter were best friends, but friendship was far less important than family. Friends came and went; family was always there.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

E. M. Forster

#14. Nothing is impossible for him who believes.

Anonymous

#15. As for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.

Sonia Sotomayor

#16. In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

Rita Mae Brown

#17. The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

Meghan Daum

#18. One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

Smokey Robinson

#19. I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

Lapo Elkann

#20. I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.

Lionel Shriver