As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.