"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space."

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Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

— Mignon McLaughlin