Family
Penelope Tree is the only child of Ronald, a journalist, investor and British MP, and Marietta Tree, a U.S. socialite and political activist. She is the great-granddaughter of American retailer Marshall Field and of American educator Rev. Endicott Peabody. She is the half-sister of author Frances FitzGerald and a niece of former Massachusetts governor Endicott Peabody.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“The intent of matrimony, is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civil society, to govern their family with prudence, and educate their children with discretion.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany (June 1807)
“Nor does the family even move about together,
But every son would have his motor cycle,
And daughters ride away on casual pillions.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“True spoiling is nothing to do with what a child owns or with amount of attention he gets. he can have the major part of your income, living space and attention and not be spoiled, or he can have very little and be spoiled. It is not what he gets that is at issue. It is how and why he gets it. Spoiling is to do with the family balance of power.”
—Penelope Leach (20th century)