7,080 Quotes About Family

It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.

Some people live for the sake of their partners and derive their strength and energy from them

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water--it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. I was on the bottom bunk again, listening to his slumber verses. The flap of our childhood letter box opened. Opening the door to the spray of sea.

Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else.

My Keeper took everything from me: my home, my family, my voice. He made me powerless. But I'm home now. It may be split in two, but I have it back. My family may be broken, but I have it back. I have my voice back. I am not powerless anymore.