It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
—Mignon McLaughlin
How different my own activism would be if every time something happened, I asked myself, "What would I do if this was my family?
—Bushra Rehman
We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are
trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must
be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose
unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and
international stage.… Changing the way we raise children is the only long-term path to peace or arms control, and neither
has ever been more crucial. As the feminist adage says, "The
personal is political.
—Gloria Steinem
Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.
—Sarah Dessen in Lock and Key
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
—George Carlin
Look at the typical American family scene: Man walking around farting. Woman walking around scratching. Kids going around hollering. Hey, man, fuck that.
—Elvis Presley
Whenever you break up with someone, you don't just break up with one person. You break up with their family, their friends, and their dog.
—Gemma Burgess in A Girl Like You
There was something special about family by choice. It wasn't blood that held us all together. It was loyalty. Love.
—Cambria Hebert in #Junkie