The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That’s one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the comfort of all the small things Charlotte did for him,but these were nothing...

The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum...

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave...

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

Soon I will be older than him, but I’ll always chase him anyway, like a little sister, and always he’ll be running just along at the edges of things, and always he’ll be turning a...

I didn’t know what I wanted to Be…A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a...

Showing up is what counts.

How can you be a ‘Former-Father’? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply...

I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important that his daughter was perfect—but, I was his daughter and I was neither of those...

My mother has a gap betweenher two front teeth. So does Daddy Gunnar.Each child in this family has the same spaceconnecting us.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you’ll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

How do you look at your best friend the same way again when you know the flavor of his mouth?

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

My dad had limitations. That’s what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Surrounded by people speaking a different language, our family started talking to each other. We drew into a very small tribe (population: four), who ate together, and squabbled together, and mostly played together. We learned...

Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

A young nurse, someone new whom he didn’t recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. “Are you a friend or a family member?” She whispered the question in his ear, trying...

Imagine that the world had created a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their...

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you…

Community is composed of that which we don’t attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me.

Dad, is that you?

My mother-in-law scared the hell out of me. But it’s cool, because the stench of Satan reminds me of her anyways. Hungry? Deviled eggs anyone?

Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest...

Let’s start a new family.

Don’t let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and...

They made me one of them, a part of a family in a way I never had been before. Beyond gratitude and obligation, I chose them. I chose them because they love me, because they...

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

Why keep in touch with them? That’s what I want to know,’ asked Larry despairingly. ‘What satisfaction does it give you? They’re all either fossilized or mental.’ ‘Indeed, they’re not mental,’ said Mother indignantly.’Nonsense, Mother…...

..we’ll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

A fi îndrăgostit este o fază care trece, mai devreme sau mai t rziu. Însă ca să răm i l ngă cineva trebuie să îți dorești să consolidezi familia și să treci peste toate dificultățile....

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.

Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious cocktail party.

Even if a man has everything – money, power, the key to eternal life – he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

I’ve never had sex,” repeated Artemis. “Never wanted to.” It was her turn not to look at him as she spoke. “Not with a man or with a woman, or with an animal, though my...

Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at the central coming-and-going point. Gil called them concierge dogs. And it’s true, they were inquisitive and accommodating. But they...

Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for...

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes’. Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You...

Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion more into practice and reputation. Here the reformation must begin.

It was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and accidental and lucky.

Do as you must — you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make...

There’s something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It’s the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the vulnerability of trusting others to navigate those situations. It’s the exhilaration...

When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.