Family Issues Quotes

• It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

  Virginia Satir

  Communication, Skills, Issues

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Thinking, Issues

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.204, Penguin

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• In our corporate culture, because someone may have to take some flexibility because of family issues, somehow we continue to believe they aren't fully dedicated.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Believe, Issues, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal.

  Mandy Stadtmiller

  Breakup, Disappointment, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  Christopher Lasch

  Issues, Purpose, Manipulation

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• Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Issues, Income, Matter

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• Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.

  Bill Richardson

  Mother Daughter, Men, Issues

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• I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.

  Savannah Guthrie

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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