Curran Dolores:
Healthy families are our greatest national resource.

Jane Austen:
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Howard:
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jean Illsley Clarke:
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

Kathleen Norris:
Unkindness is death to the home. One unkind, unsocial, critical, eternally dissatisfied member can destroy any family.

Lynne Alpern and Esther Blumenfeld:
With relatives, long distance is even better than being there.

Margaret Laurence:
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Marsha Norman:
Family is just accident…They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Mary Sarton:
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

Maya Angelou:
Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Nancy Mitford:
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Rose Kennedy:
When all of us had time to be together, we didn't want to share it with outsiders. As a result the Kennedy children became natives of the Kennedy family, first and foremost, before any city or any country.

Shere Hite:
Every family is a "normal" family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way…Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.

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