Family

 All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – L. Tolstoy

Retort

 

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in an interesting way.

 

 

A happy family is but an early heaven. – George Bernard Shaw

 

Retort

 

An early heaven is but an early death.

 

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

Retort 1

 

It is an elementary mistake to confuse answering the call of one’s gonads with freedom.

 

Retort 2

 

And once he’s made it, his freedom ends.

 

Retort 3

 

It is also possibly the last thing that he makes for himself and by himself. From the moment he starts a family, he’ll have things done for him.