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

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

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

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

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.

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

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

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

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

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