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

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.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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

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

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.