A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature..

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by t….

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care..

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash..

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed..

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves..

As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life..

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up..

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you ….

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers..

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just….

Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? ….

It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family..

I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her famil….

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving ….

My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living….

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters..

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else..

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... ….

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents..

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and p….