Dysfunctional Family Quotes
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Dysfunctional Family Quotes & Sayings
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
— Mary Oliver
Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
— David W. Earle
We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.
— Carnie Wilson
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
— Viggo Mortensen
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
— Sandra Bernhard
You don't want to threaten me sis.
— Evelyn Smith
Every family is dysfunctional.
— Andy Garcia
The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.
— David W. Earle
Here's an idea, how about you stop drinking? How about you go to rehab? Or you could just do us all a favor and die.
— Evelyn Smith
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.
— Joe Bastianich
You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.
— Henry Cloud
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
— Tamora Pierce
Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.
— David W. Earle
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.
— Star Jones
Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy
— David W. Earle
Being real is being true to you.
— David W. Earle
Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
— David W. Earle
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
— David W. Earle
Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.
— Shailene Woodley
In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.
— Renee Fredrickson
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.
— Story Musgrave
Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
— David W. Earle
So," said Patrick, "how is my favorite dysfunctional family? Righteously fucked or fucking righteously?
— David Dalglish
In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller.
— Angelos Michalopoulos
You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.
— Donna K. Childree
My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.
— Kirby Wright
Seizing God's vision means deciding that you will not spend another day surviving your work environment, family dynamic, or dysfunctional situation.
— Steven Furtick
Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.
— Julie Delpy
It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.
— Anna Wintour
I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.
— Kathy Najimy
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
— Patrick Duffy
A dysfunctional family makes for great writing -
— Angela Rose
You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.
— Sarah Pekkanen
There are two things you can run and not hide from- God and a dysfunctional family". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
— Malachy McCourt
Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.
— David W. Earle
Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
— David W. Earle
The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.
— David W. Earle
It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
— David W. Earle
The human race is one big dysfunctional family.
— Robert Barron
