You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Source: Interview in Writers at Work (Second Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1963).
-- Robert Frost, (Mar 26 1874-1963), US poet; He was America's unofficial poet laureate who wrote of rural New England, e.g., The Road Not Taken.