I am guilty that I raised your hopes about wedding, marriage, children and family, and many other things.

You have yourself to blame.

If I loved you, well that's my fault

If there must be blame, then all citizens—you, I, everyone—are responsible for letting it be that kind of world, for not placing ethical development ahead of every other kind. We understand ethical necessities quite well; we’ve been capable of understanding them for several thousand years; but we haven’t been willing to let them rule our actions—it’s that simple.

Believe me, my friends, you are yet very deficient with regard to the best modes of training your children, or of arranging your domestic concerns.

Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad.

Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

Have I not taught you, that marriage is a duty, whenever it can be enter’d into with prudence? What a mean, what a selfish mind must that person have, whether man or woman, who can resolve against entering into the state, because it has its cares, its fatigues, its inconveniencies!

If you’re a revolutionary, you shouldn’t have started a family.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

They blame the low-income women for ruining the country because they're staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle-income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.