Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me...
For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...
One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't. You'll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in mind, the hardest part of any negotiation is agreeing to start it...
If you turn into a dog, be sure to choose a rich family.
I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning, but it's worth every moment.
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decis...
Our family makes us who we are, defines us totally. When you go to a therapist or have analysis, whatever reason you go in for, they will always bring you back to your family. We're strong or weak according to what family we have. You might have left...
You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This was not done out of malice,...
Family drama is a trade off for having family.
Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
We are not poor. We just don't have any money!
Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.
I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
