When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

If I were to retire, I would keep my family’s interest in the company the same and say, Don’t sell.

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

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

My whole damn family was nice. I don’t think I’ve imagined it. It’s true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.