Dysfunctional Family Quotes

• A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

  Mary Karr

  Family, Thanksgiving Day, Persons

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.16, Penguin

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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Family, Feelings

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.

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• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Dance

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• With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

  Mary Oliver

  Childhood, World, Salvation

  "Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver". Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 09, 2011.

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• Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Thinking, Worry, World

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.36, Grove Press

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• The human race is one big dysfunctional family.

  Robert Barron

  Race, Bigs, Humans

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• Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Women, Love You

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

  Carnie Wilson

  Normal, These Days

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

  Sue Grafton

  Family, People, Kind

  Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Running, Giving, Bleeding

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Funny, Family, Queens

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• A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

  Keri Hulme

  Heart, Gone Away, My Family

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.242, LSU Press

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• Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

  Gene Hackman

  Numbers, Actors, Good Actors

  "Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Every Angry Man" by David Edelstein, www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2001.

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• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

  Anna Wintour

  Loving Family, Vogue, Warm

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• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Grew Up, Grew

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• Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Wedding, Bride And Groom, Platforms

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might have opportunities, they might have jobs that allow them to experience things that kids in poverty often don't have. Sometimes they come from dysfunctional families. And when you come from a family where money's a real challenge, then it might not be a priority to get you into a summer internship.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Summer, Teacher, Real

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.

  Nikki Sixx

  Pain, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Family, Law, Sitting

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• So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

  Stephen Karam

  Drama, Dysfunction, Strange

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

  Sara Shepard

  Wall, Glasses, Castles

  "A Page-Turning Cure For Holiday Family Drama". Interview with Casey Gueren, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 11, 2011.

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