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.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

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

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

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

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

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.