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

— Mary Karr , book The Liars' Club

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Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

“I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of Western life.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

Introduction (p. xiv)
2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010)

“If you were there behind every family's closed doors, everyone's a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family, or than the other girl at school's family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.”

Meaghan Martin (1992) American musician and actor

Seventeen Chats With Meaghan Martin From 10 Things I Hate About You! https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/reviews/a5306/meaghan-martin-talks-camp-rock-2/ (July 27, 2009)

“Family is more than blood”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can’t go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling, that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family’s mental health.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

“No force is more powerful -- or more multiple -- than the family.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 246.

“My family wasn't troubled by much dysfunction. The most hotly contested issue was probably 'Who is going to have the most peas?'”

Griff Rhys Jones (1953) British actor and comedian

Consequently, I haven't got much time for angst. Anything that happens to you is your own responsibility.

Michael Odell, "This much I know: Griff Rhys Jones" http://arts.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1939605,00.html, The Guardian, November 5 2006.

Talking about dysfunction

“I left school at age 16. I was illiterate with no role models. The great psychobabble today is the dysfunctional family. Well, I've never met one that was functional. In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11 … It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.”

Malachy McCourt (1931) Irish-American actor, writer and politician

The New York Times interview (1998)

“Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 114.

“Nothing threatens a father’s involvement in the family more than his obligation to be the family’s “financial womb,” creating “The Father’s ‘Catch-22’”: loving the family by being away from the family. It is the irony of traditional fatherhood: being a father by not being a father.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 90.

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

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