Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situ…

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, …

Avoir sa belle-mere en province quand on demeure a Paris, et vice versa, est une de ces bonnes fortunes qui se rencontrent toujours trop rarement.

When the pioneers and adventurers of our past left their homes in search of new lands, they said good-bye forever to the place of their birth and the companion…