If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.
