Mary Karr Quotes

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

Every family is dysfunctional.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there's so much to explore within it.

Most families are dysfunctional.

I love books about dysfunctional families.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

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

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

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other's dad, and all our dads had real problems.

All families are liable to have degenerate members.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.

My family is broken.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch