Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.