Jodi Picoult Quotes

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college. But I dedicate the book to her because she is the true champion of the family. She kept our family together. She provided us with a roof over our head. She always worked.

The family is the corner stone of our society.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

Families are the bedrock of our society.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.