"Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash."
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"When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there."
"We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together."
"In my very own self, I am part of my family."
"Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families."
"Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family."
"My family's really close."
"I'm really close to all of my family."
"My family is very traditional, Catholic."
"My ideal travel companions are my family."
"When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean."
"I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon."
"My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center."
"I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women."
"My family is very theatrical."
"I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family."
"Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary."
"I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'"
"In my personal life, my family makes me laugh more than anybody; I think that is the same for everybody. I certainly hope it is."
"I'm focusing on my family, raising my family, and staying blessed."