“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.”
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“A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.”
“The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.”
“We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.”
“I'm happiest with my family around me.”
“All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.”
“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.”
“When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'”
“I'm the git in the family.”
“A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.”
“I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.”
“Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.”
“I do come from a strong family.”
“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
“If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.”
“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”
“How do you rebel in a family of rebels?”
“I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.”
“You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.”
“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”