Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
Germaine GreerA plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor StravinskyI'm really happy with everything right now - my career and family life!
Jade GoodyEnough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates, to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family
Henry GilesThe family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis PicabiaI was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.
Michelle PfeifferI've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
Pamela StephensonIf each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George CadburyMy family's a musical family
Erika TakacsAfter the family the most important thing is the foot... is the soccer
David BeckhamFor someone who's grown up in a sports-mad family and a bit of an Olympic junkie, I can't think of a better way to get fit. [on C4 show The Games]
Anna Walker'If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.'
Johnny DeppHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns'My family is just beyond out-of-control excited.' - Winning the Golden Globe
Jennifer GarnerOur people receive the news of his death with a deep sense of grief and loss.
He was a holy champion of the Filipino family and of profound Christian values that make everyone of us contemplate... what is just, moral and sacred in life.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Gloria ArroyoThe family that prays together stays together
Al ScalponeHe will never be dull to strangers who joins in sport with his own family.
Titus Maccius PlautusThe whole world is one family
Sun Yat-senI put on a video of one of his recent fights and it made my eyes water, there were so many low blows. I want a big family so I was straight on the phone to sort out some insurance for my meat and two veg!
Kevin MitchellWhen you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door
Jacques ChiracA series of rumours about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
Ted LindsayIn a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Antonin ScaliaMy family knew it was good for my career and I would have only had the title Miss Great Britain for another few months anyway.
Danielle LloydOutrageous, his lies about my family [on Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore]
George BushThe lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles BaudelaireI am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
Louis FarrakhanMy family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.
Dennis QuaidA genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go
Jean DubuffetThe life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
C Wright MillsIf I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie DriverHe's got a young family and he had a fantastic future in front of him. It's everyone's worst nightmare and puts everything into perspective. [on Paul Hunter]
Stephen HendryOnly as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
NovalisI'm an emotional person. I really put my heart and soul into it. I felt I'd let Anton and my family down.
Jan RavensI believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.
Samuel ButlerYou don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond TutuI have never, ever knowly taken illegal drugs, and I would never embarrass my family, my friends, my country and the kids who love me.
Ben Johnson'I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.'
Elvis PresleyAt age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
Paula DanzigerThe family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape
Dodie SmithIt's something that my family can finally be proud of. [on his Hollywood career]
Hugh JackmanA genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go
AnonymousIn a boarding school there's no privacy, no money, and no help, except from the larger family of the school itself. There's no dreamy solitude, no slack time, no lazing
Nelson W AldrichI can only take Mike Ruddock at his word that he left for family reasons as I haven't had chance to talk to him yet, but I can fully understand those stresses.
Scott JohnsonI'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now...
John LydonFamily makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive... I'm feeling my life, which I didn't always do partly because I'd be drunk a lot.
Sean PennThe pink sheep of the family [on himself]
Alexander McQueenHe's got a family and two young children and he's slowing down his career. He's just happy where he is at the moment and you have to respect that
Greg RusedskiWe have been through so much together. None of us are from London and we're living away from our friends and family. We only have each other and that's what has made us so tight - that's why we have to remain as a five.
Kimberley WalshPride, in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit
Johann Georg Von ZimmermannMy family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
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