A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

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

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

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

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

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

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.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

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