Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

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

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

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

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

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

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.