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I love books about dysfunctional families. -- Sara Shepard
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. -- Bo Bennett
I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home? -- Irvin Yalom
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. -- Sue Grafton
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life -- Bo
We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal. -- Carnie Wilson
Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families. -- Lisa Kleypas
Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. -- Kenneth Branagh
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm. -- Charles de Lint
Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do. -- Mike Judge
In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage. -- John Bradshaw
Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition. -- Cynthia Heimel
Every family is dysfunctional. -- Andy Garcia
I grew up in a dysfunctional family. -- Melissa Gilbert
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities. -- bell hooks
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. -- Gene Hackman
The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not. -- Shailene Woodley
I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional. -- Kathy Najimy
If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club. -- Martha MacIsaac
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others. -- Viggo Mortensen
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't. -- Malachy McCourt
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family. -- Star Jones
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed. -- Tamora Pierce
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together. -- Patrick Duffy
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently. -- Joe Bastianich
As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could. -- Christopher Fowler
I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships. -- James Caan
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. -- John le Carre
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional. -- Kevin Nealon
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families. -- Star Parker

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