Joss Whedon Quotes

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relative.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

I write about families. That is who we are.

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.

I think blood doesn't determine who your family is.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

I've got two younger brothers.

Strong families are vital to strong societies.

Family counts for a lot in this world.

A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.

I have two big brothers.

I don't believe you have to be blood to be family, so I have a lot of family members.

Due to my lack of family, I've almost built a family around me of friends that are, for me that is, they mean more to me than my own family.