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  • Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

    Funny   Family   Queens  
  • It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.

  • The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

  • The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

    Funny   Family   Heart  
    Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120
  • A musical blast! Fun for the whole nuclear family!

  • Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.42, Random House
  • I think what we need to do is to step back as a society and say okay, we've kind of turned things upside-down. We have moved away from the nuclear family, in which the man always works and the woman stays home. How are we going to rearrange things now? We've done the first part of the revolution, we've turned everything on its head, but we haven't figured out what structures will actually work in this new world.

    Home   Men   Thinking  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.

    Real   People   World  
    "This Much I Know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.
  • Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

    Summer   Home   Holiday  
    "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.
  • Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

  • The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

  • Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  • You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

    Mom   Brother   Dad  
  • The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

    Life   Family   Spiritual  
    Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta
  • Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.

    Baby   Sorry   Self  
  • Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

    Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press
  • The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.

  • What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

    Girl   Mother   Writing  
  • My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

    "Tim Burton: 'The love and life and death stuff was stewing from the start'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.
  • While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

    Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.29, Vintage
  • The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility.

    Eye   Son   Boys  
  • The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together.... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.... No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children... Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all.

  • The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

    Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”
  • We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

    David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.31, Harvard University Press
  • I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

    Family   Children   Two  
    Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

    Gay   Rights   Law  
  • 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.

  • I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

    Mom   Children   Dad  
  • The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.

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