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I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity.

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.